{"id":460320,"date":"2025-09-29T11:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/460320\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:47:11","slug":"germanys-pistorius-pours-cold-water-on-drone-wall-concept-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/460320\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Pistorius pours cold water on drone wall concept \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDrone defense, of course, but not by a drone wall,\u201d he stressed, adding that the priority is to make sure that development and procurement processes are flexible enough because of how fast the technology is evolving.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come as drones violated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-drone-nato-incursions-poland-gaps-western-arsenal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Polish<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-top-diplomat-decries-russias-breach-of-romanian-airspace\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Romanian<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/danish-pm-doesnt-rule-out-russian-involvement-in-airport-drone-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Danish<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/politiken.dk\/internationalt\/art10561513\/Drone-beslaglagt-ved-Oslo-Lufthavn1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Norwegian<\/a>\u00a0airspace in the past weeks; Russian fighter jets also crossed into Estonian airspace before being chased off. That&#8217;s increasing pressure on NATO and the EU to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Kubilius <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/european-commission-drone-wall-russia-ukraine-nato\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hosted a meeting<\/a> with eastern flank countries, including Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia to discuss a drone wall.<\/p>\n<p>He has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/european-commission-drone-wall-russia-ukraine-nato\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously said that such a project<\/a> could be ready in a year; the Commission is working on the scheme\u2019s technical and financial details.<\/p>\n<p>The drone wall plan will be on the agenda of Wednesday\u2019s informal meeting of European leaders in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>Invest faster <\/p>\n<p>Despite that worry about over-committing to a drone wall, EU and NATO countries should swiftly develop and purchase counter-drone technology, Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said, speaking on the same panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDrone defense, of course, but not by a drone wall,\u201d he stressed, adding that the priority is to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2594,18992,44693,7668,13489,473,12495,2595,1112,2000,299,769,1824,2190,1113,1114,770,7061,1438,332,811,2558,53,657,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-460320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-airspace","10":"tag-andrius-kubilius","11":"tag-boris-pistorius","12":"tag-bulgaria","13":"tag-defense","14":"tag-development","15":"tag-drones","16":"tag-estonia","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-europe","19":"tag-finland","20":"tag-germany","21":"tag-hungary","22":"tag-latvia","23":"tag-lithuania","24":"tag-poland","25":"tag-procurement","26":"tag-romania","27":"tag-russia","28":"tag-security","29":"tag-slovakia","30":"tag-technology","31":"tag-ukraine","32":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","33":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115287427913219543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}