
The European Union must “do more” in defence if it wishes to play a geostrategic role and enhance its geostrategic autonomy, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday.
“Defence in the European Union is the sole responsibility of member states,” the president told media on arriving at the informal EU leaders’ retreat at the Palais d’Egmont in Brussels.
But, he went on, “there is a common European [defence] interest, and I