European Commissioner for Defence Andrius Kubilius said the EU executive’s military mobility package, which enters trilogues in the European Parliament on Thursday, is necessary and should be implemented “as soon as we can be ready” – but MEPs want it implemented two years ahead of the originally envisaged deadline.
“The big problem for us is that we have 27 member states and they have 27 regimes of military mobility,” Kubilius told Euronews. “For example, to bring troops from Spain to the Baltic states, it can take something like 45 days. We are changing that very radically.”
