EU military capabilities are the sole
deterrent for Moscow, President Sergio Mattarella said Friday.
"In Russia's opinion, the European Union would not be an
insurmountable obstacle. What can dissuade it? The deterrent is
a Union with adequate military capabilities that only a true
common Defense can ensure," he said at a summit of the Arraiolos
Group in Krakow. "At the same time, we must ensure a strong
maintenance of the Atlantic Alliance, because, in full
complementarity, NATO would be strengthened".
The creation of common Euroepan Union defence can no longer
be put off, President Sergio Mattarella said Friday at a meeting
of the Arraiolos Group, an informal meeting of Presidents of
parliamentary and semi-presidential European Union member
states, held roughly once a year.
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