{"id":367615,"date":"2025-11-09T20:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/367615\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T20:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:27:15","slug":"britain-france-and-germany-deploy-anti-drone-teams-to-belgium-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/367615\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain, France and Germany deploy anti-drone teams to Belgium \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incursions of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the EU\u2019s critical infrastructure sites have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/drones-plague-belgium-airports-crisis-skies-traffic\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/drones-plague-belgium-airports-crisis-skies-traffic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">escalated in recent months<\/a>, with the European Commission dubbing them part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/belgium-says-suspicious-drones-come-spy-fighter-jets-ammunition\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/belgium-says-suspicious-drones-come-spy-fighter-jets-ammunition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the hybrid war<\/a> that Russia is conducting against the bloc. Russia denies the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium\u2019s National Air Security Center will be fully operational by Jan. 1, 2026, Francken said after holding an emergency meeting of the National Security Council on Thursday. Meanwhile, the Belgian government asked for help from Berlin, Paris and London, which are all sending air force experts.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that the drone incursions are linked to the ongoing talks on using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-races-to-win-belgian-backing-for-ukraine-loan\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-races-to-win-belgian-backing-for-ukraine-loan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russian frozen assets<\/a> to help fund Ukraine&#8217;s effort to defend itself against Moscow&#8217;s all-out invasion. The assets are mostly held in Belgium\u2019s Euroclear facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a measure aimed at spreading insecurity, at fearmongering in Belgium: Don&#8217;t you dare to touch the frozen assets. This cannot be interpreted any other way,&#8221; Pistorius said at a Friday press conference, Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/german-military-creates-rapid-response-teams-counter-drone-threats-2025-11-07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium\u2019s government did not explicitly point fingers at Moscow, but the country\u2019s secret service has little doubt about the origin of the drones, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrt.be\/vrtnws\/en\/2025\/11\/05\/belgian-security-services-convinced-russia-is-behind-the-drone-i\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VRT<\/a>. Francken said on Saturday that &#8220;Russia is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FranckenTheo\/status\/1987041405542306082\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FranckenTheo\/status\/1987041405542306082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">clearly a plausible suspect<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Incursions of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the EU\u2019s critical infrastructure sites have escalated in recent months, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":367616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17390,57925,160591,111,102534,21977,262,5755,110815,121566,156,117,5173,1802,121567,50,5500,257,4995,5677,177602,273,376,274,3656,131,275,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-367615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-airports","9":"tag-airspace","10":"tag-bart-de-wever","11":"tag-belgium","12":"tag-boris-pistorius","13":"tag-critical-infrastructure","14":"tag-defense","15":"tag-drones","16":"tag-european-defense","17":"tag-european-defense-policy","18":"tag-france","19":"tag-germany","20":"tag-infrastructure","21":"tag-military","22":"tag-multinational-defense-programs","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-ports","25":"tag-russia","26":"tag-security","27":"tag-services","28":"tag-theo-francken","29":"tag-ukraine","30":"tag-united-kingdom","31":"tag-vladimir-putin","32":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","33":"tag-war","34":"tag-war-in-ukraine","35":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115521628608341196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}