{"id":35639,"date":"2026-05-08T13:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/35639\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:14:08","slug":"kallas-proposes-doubling-eu-defense-funding-for-moldova-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/35639\/","title":{"rendered":"Kallas proposes doubling EU defense funding for Moldova \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any increase would require approval from EU members, who have spent years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-cash-ukraine-bloc-agree-5-billion-euro-weapon-fund\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">squabbling<\/a> over the bloc&#8217;s off-budget mechanism for financing military assistance. Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n spent years blocking efforts to free cash for EPF reimbursements, and in the past France and Germany have raised objections on technical grounds as well.<\/p>\n<p>Kallas framed the cash boost as part of a broader effort to harden Moldova against Russian pressure. \u201cMoldova remains caught in Russia\u2019s hybrid war,\u201d she said, pointing to attacks on energy infrastructure and repeated Russian drone incursions into Moldovan airspace.<\/p>\n<p>A new EU-funded radar system has already arrived in the country, she added, helping Moldova improve detection of Russian drones near its borders. <\/p>\n<p>The EPF proposal would significantly deepen the EU\u2019s defense relationship with Chi\u0219in\u0103u. In 2024, Moldova became the first non-EU country to sign a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/moldova-security-defense-pact-eu-security-cooperation-josep-borrell-border-management-cybersecurity-disinformation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">security and defense partnership<\/a> with the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoldova already belongs to the European community,\u201d Kallas said Friday, adding that Brussels will soon host a second EU-Moldova summit, though no date has yet been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Any increase would require approval from EU members, who have spent years squabbling over the bloc&#8217;s off-budget mechanism&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3986,367,17,39,40,56,302,6861,1285,6863,23482,16,121,28,75,111,7971],"class_list":{"0":"post-35639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-airspace","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-drones","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-foreign-policy","14":"tag-kaja-kallas","15":"tag-maia-sandu","16":"tag-military","17":"tag-moldova","18":"tag-radar","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-security","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-vladimir-putin","23":"tag-war","24":"tag-weapons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}