{"id":26772,"date":"2026-02-27T18:24:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/26772\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:24:49","slug":"europe-deploys-anti-drone-troops-to-copenhagen-ahead-of-eu-summits-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/26772\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe deploys anti-drone troops to Copenhagen ahead of EU summits \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark was rattled by a wave of drone sightings at major airports and military air bases last week, disrupting air traffic and stranding thousands of passengers. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-hybrid-war-danish-prime-minister-says-russia-drones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said the airspace breaches<\/a> amounted to \u201chybrid war\u201d and hinted Russia was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>The incidents, which occurred ahead of Wednesday\u2019s European Council meeting in Copenhagen to discuss defense and Ukraine, led the Danish authorities to take the dramatic step of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/denmark-bans-drone-flights-eu-leader-copenhagen-thomas-danielsen-transport\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closing the country\u2019s airspace<\/a> to civilian drones.<\/p>\n<p>France said Monday it had also sent its armed forces to shore up Copenhagen\u2019s defenses.<\/p>\n<p>Paris deployed \u201c35 personnel, a FENNEC helicopter, and active counter-drone assets\u201d to Denmark \u201cin response to the recent upsurge in unidentified drone flights in Danish airspace,\u201d the French defense ministry said in a statement, adding the drones were a \u201cserious threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a German frigate \u2014 the FSG Hamburg \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/denmark-bans-drone-flights-eu-leader-copenhagen-thomas-danielsen-transport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">arrived in Copenhagen<\/a>\u00a0over the weekend to assist with airspace surveillance.\u00a0A senior German government official said Monday \u201caround 40 soldiers\u201d would also be deployed to Copenhagen to \u201cprovide support in the detection, identification, and defense against drones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with Wednesday\u2019s summit, Copenhagen will host the European Political Community on Thursday, bringing together leaders from across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Nette N\u00f6stlinger contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark was rattled by a wave of drone sightings at major airports and military air bases last week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[3998,4263,17305,108,26,4579,234,3396,1111,3059,238,5682,241,4882,546],"class_list":["post-26772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-copenhagen","tag-airports","tag-airspace","tag-breaches","tag-copenhagen","tag-denmark","tag-drones","tag-france","tag-mette-frederiksen","tag-military","tag-radar","tag-russia","tag-surveillance","tag-ukraine","tag-ulf-kristersson","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}