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EU heads of state met in Copenhagen this week to ponder the provocations of Vladimir Putin and the inaction of Donald Trump to stop the war in Ukraine. In their first get-together since June, they discussed the idea of a “drone wall” that would detect and shoot down enemy drones and explored how to legally lend 140 billion euro to Ukraine from frozen Russian assets.
Panelists Donnacha Ó Beacháin, from Dublin City University, Ilke Toygur, from the Global Policy Center at IE university and Matthew Robinson from the Euro Gulf Information Centre said EU leaders have no time to lose.
“Europeans cannot necessarily control the Russian president, but they can control what they are deciding on and how they are strengthening the European security,” Matthew Robinson said stressing the importance of partnerships. “Europe should look for allies elsewhere.”
Serbians on the streets
The panel also reflected on the situation in Serbia where protests have been taking place for almost one year about the alleged corruption in President Vučić’s government. For Donnacha Ó Beacháin, this is a big challenge for Brussels.
“It’s always difficult because the fear is that if you push Serbia too hard, you push it further towards Russia and its allies, you give it fewer incentives to modify its kind of authoritarian form of rule,” he says.
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