The European Commission President told MEPs that the recent Taliban takeover of Afghanistan proved that the EU needs to bolster its military capabilities.... We have the knowledge, but it is disjoined.... Information is fragmented.“ This is why the EU could consider its own Joint Situational Awareness Centre to fuse all the different pieces of information.“ And to be better prepared, to be fully informed and to be able to decide.“ Secondly, we need to improve interoperability....

-led NATO battlegroup amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.U.S. President Joe Biden said on

It comes as official figures show almost 900 troops？... the size of a battlegroup？... Ministers

Of the reinforcement forces, it is not planned to send any to the battlegroup.... I do not know

Challenger 2 tanks and armoured vehicles of the Royal Welsh battlegroup have now arrived in Estonia

confidential 28-page document dated Nov.... 9 and seen by Reuters.... The EU has maintained battlegroups

creation in 2007 of a system of battlegroups of 1, 500 troops that have never been used due to

Reinforcements in the Black Sea would show resolve in the strategically important region, and in countries such as Hungary and Slovakia that border Ukraine.... Any deployments would go against Moscow's security demands for the alliance to withdraw troops from eastern Europe.... Instead, NATO could consider a multinational force led by France in Romania that would coordinate allied exercises in eastern Europe and allow troops to flow in and out of the region without establishing a formal presen

BUCHAREST( Reuters)-German Air Force Eurofighters arrived at a military air base in eastern Romania on Thursday as part of a deployment to NATO's eastern flanks amid a Russian military build-up on Ukraine's border, the defence ministry said. The three Eurofighters and roughly 60 soldiers will join Italian and Romanian forces for enhanced air policing missions over the next three weeks.... German air forces ran similar missions alongside British air forces in Romania in 2021. They will be statio

Critics said the European Commission President’s calls for boots on the ground raises questions over whether eurocrats should be in charge of a militarised bloc.... It came after Mrs von der Leyen accused EU leaders of lacking the “ political will ” to deploy Brussels-led troops around the world.... “ Will Ursula von der Leyen or Guy Verhofstadt be able to declare wars as they wish?...