{"id":22790,"date":"2026-06-21T14:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/22790\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:54:47","slug":"eus-east-wants-brussels-to-speed-up-drone-defense-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/22790\/","title":{"rendered":"EU\u2019s East Wants Brussels to Speed Up Drone-Defense Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">European Union nations on the bloc\u2019s eastern flank are piling pressure on Brussels to speed up the approval of air-defense funding as more military drones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-06-08\/latvia-says-nato-jets-shot-down-drone-that-flew-into-airspace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">stray into their airspace<\/a> from Russia and Ukraine, according to people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The EU has made several pools of funding available for projects that would give member states new capabilities to monitor and neutralize low-flying attack drones. Countries in the EU\u2019s east, including Estonia and Finland, <a href=\"https:\/\/valtioneuvosto.fi\/en\/-\/ministerial-committee-on-economic-policy-agrees-on-applying-for-additional-funding-for-detecting-and-countering-drones\" title=\"Press release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">submitted projects<\/a> earlier this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European Union nations on the bloc\u2019s eastern flank are piling pressure on Brussels to speed up the approval&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,320,69,170,13866,328,427,5562,192,336,390,88],"class_list":["post-22790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-brussels","tag-estonia","tag-europe","tag-finland","tag-igor-taro","tag-ireland","tag-military","tag-national-security","tag-politics","tag-romania","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116788675775093054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}