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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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