„I keep asking myself why Lithuania is so invisible in those European debates that concern our vital interests,“ he said on Saturday at the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats congress.
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„Do we think that we will have no influence in such discussions because only the big players will decide everything; or are we simply indifferent to such changes in the European house (…); or do we simply no longer have the intellectual potential to participate in such considerations,“ the politician asked.
The European Commissioner noted that Lithuania has no publicly presented initiatives or position documents on this topic, although the country should have a significant influence in shaping common European decisions.
This is how A. Kubilius spoke to the heads of intelligence services of the continent’s countries, fearing that Russia’s war against Ukraine is increasingly moving into European territory, while states are struggling to find countermeasures that could stop Moscow’s hybrid attacks.
On Tuesday, Berlin accused Moscow of the incident at Leipzig airport, which the EU described as having all the signs of “state-sponsored terrorism.”
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„Let’s get out of that provincial self-doubt complex, get out of our small European room and start caring about the whole European house, finally introduce European coordinates into our thinking and try ourselves to participate in defining those coordinates,“ emphasized A. Kubilius.
„We, our party, can be influential, first and foremost as a party,“ the European Commissioner told his comrades.
According to him, as NATO transforms, Europe should take the lead in conventional defense, and the US on the continent would only have a secondary role.
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Washington is currently conducting a six-month review of its forces in Europe.
