Brussels, my love? Can a 'drone wall' stop Putin?

Published on 04/10/2025 - 8:00 GMT+2

EU heads of authorities met successful Copenhagen this week to ponder the provocations of Vladimir Putin and the inaction of Donald Trump to halt the warfare successful Ukraine. In their archetypal get-together since June, they discussed the thought of a “drone wall” that would observe and sprout down force drones and explored however to legally lend 140 cardinal euro to Ukraine from frozen Russian assets.

Panelists Donnacha Ó Beacháin, from Dublin City University, Ilke Toygur, from the Global Policy Center astatine IE assemblage and Matthew Robinson from the Euro Gulf Information Centre said EU leaders person nary clip to lose.  

"Europeans cannot needfully power the Russian president, but they tin power what they are deciding connected and however they are strengthening the European security," Matthew Robinson said stressing the value of partnerships. "Europe should look for allies elsewhere." 

Serbians connected the streets

The sheet besides reflected connected the concern successful Serbia wherever protests person been taking spot for astir 1 twelvemonth astir the alleged corruption successful President Vučić’s government. For Donnacha Ó Beacháin, this is simply a large situation for Brussels.

"It's ever hard due to the fact that the fearfulness is that if you propulsion Serbia excessively hard, you propulsion it further towards Russia and its allies, you springiness it less incentives to modify its benignant of authoritarian signifier of rule," helium says.

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