EU and NATO move closer

Almost a year after the start of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, things have worked out after all: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and EU Council President Charles Michel signed a new declaration on cooperation at the military alliance’s headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday. The text builds on cooperation agreements from 2016 and 2018. At the time, the focus was on cooperation in areas such as cybersecurity. Now the focus is clearly on the Russian war of aggression, but for the first time also on possible threats from China.