
European Union countries should have "multiple guarantees" for their security to go alongside NATO's Article 5, including by developing a "clear mechanism" on how the bloc's own mutual defence clause works, Andrius Kubilius said on Monday.
"We Lithuanians, we learnt in our history that it is better to have multiple guarantees for our security," the European Commissioner said from Vilnius where he attended a conference entitled "Defending Baltics 2025: War Lessons from Ukraine".