Foreign policy officers have warned that the European Union members need to increase their defense to respond to the threats facing the continent.
Kaja Crow, Estonia until July 2024, stated that if the block did not maintain powerful defense, “all the Euro spent in schools, medical and welfare (vulnerable).”
US President Donald Trump had the right to criticize Europe spending. The average European spending is 1.9 %, she added.
She also pointed out that Russia would save 9 % of Russia (GDP), and said that Europe spending was “clearly sufficient,” in light of the war in Ukraine.
“It’s necessary to spend more to prevent war. It’s clear,” she said to the BBC World Service weekend program.
Crow said that member states needed to cooperate to “pressure” Russia economically, and recorded a three -year war in Ukraine, hinting on a new sanctions package next month.
The EU needed to be “creative” in limiting Russia’s “ability to do this war”.
Before won the EU post in December last year, Crows called for a higher level of defense while serving as the first female Prime Minister of Estonia.
In February 2024, she said she wanted NATO nations to increase their defense to 3 % of GDP.
The members of the Alliances are to defend at least 2 % of the GDP after the Russian army seizes the Ukrainian Climia southern Peninsula, seizes the proxy supported by Moscow, then controlled most of the eastern Ukraine in 2014. I promised.
As Estonia, crow has pledged more than 1 % of the national GDP to strengthen Ukraine’s war efforts.
“If all NATO countries do this, Ukraine will win,” she told the BBC last year.
According to NATO’s estimation in 2024, Estonia’s defense as part of GDP was the second highest in the military alliance.
In December 2024, Mark Latte, Secretary -General of NATO, said that Mark Latte had to “shift into wartime thinking” and spend more than 2 % in defense.
During his first term, US President Donald Trump called for a commitment to put pressure on NATO members to increase defense and later to meet 4 % of GDP.
Shortly before the second inauguration ceremony in January, Trump encouraged NATO’s European members to spend 5 %, saying to reporters that they can afford to buy it all.
When the crow was asked if he saw the end with Ukraine’s favor, he said he was still alive in her heart.
“I don’t see any other options. In other words, if you want to prosper brutal aggression, you’ll see this in other areas of the world,” she added.
She said, “All invaders or invaders in the world have revealed how we respond to Russian attacks.”
