Europe preparing to take responsibility for its defense

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Europe will continue increasing defense spending, as pledged by Andrius Kubilius, the EU's newly appointed defense chief and former Lithuanian prime minister.

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00:00In other news, Europe will continue to ramp up its defence spending.

00:04This is the pledge from former Prime Minister of Lithuania, Andreas Kobelus,

00:09who has just been appointed as the European Commission's first defence chief.

00:13We are taking up and we are doing really big things.

00:17I would like to start my words with some kind of self-congratulation.

00:22I am the first European Commissioner for Defence and Space to visit Washington DC.

00:30Because the European Union never had an European Commissioner for Defence. Never.

00:42Times have changed because we in Europe are under threat.

00:47Putin is a clear and present danger.

00:50Russia is ramping up its war machine, is producing weapons around the clock.

00:56Russia produces the same amount of ammunition in three months as all NATO countries in one year, including the United States.

01:06Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he has no intention of attacking other European countries.

01:13However, Moscow had given similar assurances about Ukraine before invading in 2022.

01:19The European Union is preparing to take responsibility.

01:20The European Union is preparing to take responsibility.

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