In my call with Minister Theo Francken, I expressed the EU’s full solidarity with Belgium in the face of the ongoing hybrid drone attacks. We stand ready to assist in every way needed 🇪🇺🤝🇧🇪 We also discussed #Roadmap, use of #SAFE loans to ramp up defence production and support Ukraine.

With almost a full year behind us, it’s good to say thank you to the Dream Team — DG DEFIS team led by Timo Pesonen, my Cabinet members, colleagues from the @ec.europa.eu services — whose dedication & expertise made our initiatives in defence & space possible. My thanks to all of you!

🛡️A key step toward full #EUDefence readiness! 🇪🇺 Political agreement reached on the Mini-Omnibus, boosting investments with: 🔹More flexible funding 🔹Option for Ukraine 🇺🇦 to join the EDF 🔹Milestone for #ReArmEU 🔹Stronger support for dual-use & innovation 🔗https://link.europa.eu/4kPmqr

I had a very good video call with Minister Philippe Baptiste 🇫🇷, taking stock of key initiatives for the space sector and discussing upcoming ones 🇪🇺 France is an important partner in space, and I look forward to our continued cooperation.

Delighted to be back in the #SEDE Committee — this time to present what we have achieved over the past year, the current state of play, and our priorities for 2026. We have an ambitious plan, an ambitious timeline, and strong political will to deliver. #EUDefence

Agreement on the mini-omnibus reached in a single trilogue! Congratulations to the co-legislators and their teams! The mini-omnibus will bring major benefits on the path to achieving #DefenceReadiness 🇪🇺

🇪🇺 Europe’s space sector is more than a strategic asset - it’s a community built together. As space is very important for security & defence, #EUDefence could contribute major resources for #EUSpace. At the #ImplementationDialogue, we explored how to be part of this revolution.

The Implementation Dialogue on Space is not about repeating what we already know. It is about identifying how we can do better — how we can make Europe’s space policy not only visionary but also executable, efficient and future-proof. Remarks ➡️🔗 ec.europa.eu/commission/p... #EUSpace

📶🛰️ We've got signal!  Congratulations to #Copernicus 🇪🇺 on the successful deployment of Sentinel-1D into the orbit.  The satellite will now enter calibration phase.  Thank you to all the teams and partners behind this mission, another milestone achievement for #EUSpace 🇪🇺

The past year was about the creation of a “big bang” in financial opportunities for defence Now we are at the start of a new period - we need a “big bang” in the delivery of defence capabilities We have a Roadmap on Delivery - and we shall deliver! #NAC ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Great to be at #NAC & to exchange views with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. #NATO brings military power, the EU 🇪🇺 brings industrial power. With clear division of labour & by working hand in hand we will achieve European #DefenceReadiness

🛰️ I am looking forward to hosting the Implementation Dialogue on Space this Wednesday, 5 November - a high-level exchange with key players in the 🇪🇺 #EUSpace ecosystem.  ➡️🔗 link.europa.eu/jfhHyT   1/3

With delegations of Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Crafts of 🇱🇹 and 🇺🇦 – about opportunities for regional businesses brought by 🇪🇺 #DefenceReadiness Roadmap and Flagship projects, by simplification and by defence cooperation with Ukraine.

Always great to meet and exchange views with 🇮🇹 Minister Adolfo Urso. This time in Brussels on: ✅ strengthening, financing and regulating 🇪🇺 space sector to improve its global competitiveness ✅ defence and space projects of common European interest

The future belongs to space. Who controls space, controls the future. 🇪🇺can't afford to leave space to our enemies. And 🇪🇺 can't afford to fall behind our friends. 🇪🇺 must build a system of systems. Linking secure communication, navigation, observation. Speech👇 1/2

It is 🇨🇭 tech that make #Galileo 📡 so precise and reliable. 🇨🇭 is excelling in space innovations and science. With Martina Hirayama, 🇨🇭State Secretary @sbfi.admin.ch , we discussed ways to deepen 🇪🇺&🇨🇭 cooperation in space and defence technologies so that together we can make Europe safer.

🇷🇴&🇵🇱 play an important role in defending and securing whole 🇪🇺 Today during calls with Ministers of Defence - Ionut Mosteanu of 🇷🇴 & @kosiniakkamysz.bsky.social of 🇵🇱 - we discussed: ✅ implementation of Eastern Flank Watch&Drone Defence Initiative ✅ use of #SAFE loans to support 🇺🇦 1/2

It is always great to discuss great projects with great people. Today I had an honour to meet Anders Fogh Rasmussen and exchange ideas about the implementation of 🇪🇺 #DefenceReadiness Roadmap 2030, European Drone Defence Initiative, Eastern Flank Watch and our other Flagship Projects.

Europe stands in full solidarity with Lithuania in the face of the persistent and incursions of helium smuggling balloons into its airspace. This is destabilisation. This is provocation. We call it by its name: a hybrid threat. We will not tolerate it.

Strong support for the #Roadmap on Defence Readiness 2030 in #EUCO! Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu: “We had a very positive discussion today on our Roadmap for Readiness 2030. “ ⬇️🔗 share.google/wqIfE6exsbCT... 1/2

European Investment Bank is a crucial financial & standard setting partner on our path to achieving 🇪🇺#DefenceReadiness With @eib.org President @nadiacalvino.eib.org we discussed additional ways to finance defence innovations, readiness & bringing new defence tech to the market #BGD2025

Today I am in Germany 🇩🇪 taking part in the Berlin Global Dialogue #BGD2025 & for bilateral meetings Good opportunity to share insights on our achievements so far & the way forward on the path to European #DefenceReadiness2030 Live at 15.15 CEST today 🔗 m.youtube.com/watch?v=B9jA...

A well deserved #SakharovPrize! Imprisoned journalists Andrzej Poczobut and Mzia Amaglobeli fight for their freedom and ours. I thank the European Parliament for putting their courageous struggle in the spotlight.

Great statements by Sviatlana Tsihanouskaya and Sergey Tihanovski delivered today at the @europarl.europa.eu #Plenary 🇪🇺 We can be proud that such convinced Europeans chose Lithuania 🇱🇹 as a center for their activities. www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/v... www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/v...

On material, institutional, and political defence readiness; on the European Defence Union; on the need to have a strategy for victory of Ukraine; and on the need to have a long-term strategy on Russia 🔗 ⬇️ #MartensCentre ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

At the start the mandate, I called for a big bang in defence. Less than a year later, the financial big bang is here—€6.8T by 2035. Now we must turn this financial big bang into a production one. Keynote at the European Defence Industry Conference🇩🇰 ↓ ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Good meeting with 🇩🇰 Minister for Higher Education and Science Christina Egelund. Great opportunity to discuss our initiatives that build on strong 🇪🇺 achievements in space. Space is crucial for defence readiness, a core element of the European flagships.

Pleased to meet 🇩🇰 Danish university students and share insights on 🇪🇺 space capabilities & how they strengthen Europe’s collective defence, importance of innovation & autonomous access to space, and what is Europe’s dream in human space exploration 🚀

🇩🇰 Very happy to be in Denmark for @aau.dk & @eu2025dk.bsky.social Space Conference 2025 - a proud spacefaring nation with world-class talent. Europe needs Danish engineers, students & innovators to help build our #EUSpace flagships together - projects that benefit the continent. 1/4

🇩🇰 Great to be in Copenhagen for the European Defence Industry Conference of @eu2025dk.bsky.social Denmark knows what’s at stake - as Russia wages hybrid war against the country and the West, it stands as one of the leaders in #EUDefence 1/4

Today in Copenhagen we had a fruitful exchange with 🇩🇰 Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen on defence readiness. We can learn a lot from the Danish experience when it comes to making their defence ready and learning from Ukraine.

Good meeting with Minister Andrii Sybiha in Brussels🇪🇺: #SAFE, Reparations Loan, forthcoming #EDIP and its Ukraine Support Instrument (USI), #Roadmap with Eastern Flank Watch to be developed together with 🇺🇦, Washington talks — a full plate of topics for a Saturday lunch!

My take on what the ‘European Drone Defence Initiative’ can entail, and what kind of Eastern Flank Watch we need to build. We must act quickly. We do not have the luxury of time. #EUDefence 🔗↓ andriuskubilius.lt/en/on-drone-...

Ukraine's battle tested experience can teach us a lot.  Ukraine paid a very high price for this knowledge. For us it's better to learn those lessons now in order to deter aggression, not after we shall face aggression. @EPP PA in Vilnius 🇱🇹 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

It’s a deal!  Successful conclusion of negotiations on #EDIP between the co-legislators. I thank all who worked hard to achieve this result! Together with Defence Readiness #Roadmap presented today - it’s a good day for #EUDefence! 🇪🇺🛡️

We want to achieve Defence Readiness and reach new NATO capability targets before 2030. Why? Because of Putin's plans. We need to deter aggression, prevent war, preserve peace. That is what the #Roadmap is about. Remarks on #DefenceReadiness Roadmap ⬇️ ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Remarks on the Defence Readiness #Roadmap at the press conference with EVP @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social and HR/VP @kajakallas.bsky.social #EUDefence ➡️🎥 audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/media/vid...

Today, we lay out Europe’s Defence Roadmap. With clear objectives, European Flagships, and milestones on the path to 2030. A strong, resilient and innovative EU defence industry will deliver the capabilities Europe needs. Our work continues at the European Council next week.⁩

Our #Roadmap 🇪🇺 is a strategic EU exercise to build European Defence Readiness 2030, a Mega Plan for Delivery with timelines, goals and reporting, led by Member States, supported by the Commission and in cooperation with NATO. 🔗 defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/eu-defence-i...

🛡️Delivery day - D-Day for #EUDefence To reach our 2030 goals, we presented #Roadmap for Defence Readiness. We’re advancing with more production, more procurement, more resources. Strengthening our institutions and democracy. We know what to deliver and how - and we’ll get it done.

Today Minister Denys Shmyhal celebrates his 50th Birthday. Best wishes! Together with DPM Taras Kachka and @martakos.ec.europa.eu we discussed cooperation with Ukraine, BraveTechEU, SAFE, possible reparations loan & battle tested 🇺🇦 integration in our European drone defence initiative 🇪🇺

Good to meet Cypriot Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas🇨🇾 The upcoming Cypriot EU Presidency next year will be key to move forward w the implementation of initiatives on defence & space, including the simplification omnibus & flagships. Looking forward to working closely together.

This Thursday will be a big day. Thursday is a D Day - Delivery Day! On Thursday the Commission will present our Roadmap for Defence Readiness. Europe is moving from plan to production. Our measure of success is not profit. But peace. #EDSC2025

Pleasure to meet Alexander Borg, MP, leader of the opposition, Parliament of Malta 🇲🇹 Good opportunity to share views on support for Ukraine and learning from Ukraine, upcoming initiatives to ramp up European defence industry, and the importance of skills development.

Today I had the pleasure to exchange with Defence Minister of Luxembourg @yurikobackes.bsky.social 🇱🇺 on the forthcoming defence and space initiatives, the next #MFF and the importance of supporting and engaging SMEs for a more agile and innovative defence ecosystem.

It's a delivery time. In the last 10 months we have prepared the ground to achieve Defensive Readiness by 2030. We need to be ready before 2030. Because Putin will be ready.  Full keynote at the 5th European Defence and Security Conference ⬇️ 🔗 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Sobering words from the German intelligence services - “We must not sit back and assume that a possible Russian attack would come in 2029 at the earliest. We are already under fire today.” For deterrence now we must take the necessary decisions now. www.euractiv.com/news/german-...

The European Defence Community - idea promoted by Jean Monnet and 🇪🇺founding fathers - failed in 1950s. We need to draw inspiration from that attempt to create a new European security architecture, involving also Ukraine 🇺🇦 Full remarks 🔗 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

We must move quickly from ideas to actions. It is possible during the next year to build essential capabilities of the drone wall. The money is there: by 2030 Member States can spend 2.5 trillion euros on defence.

We must learn from Ukraine. Ukraine air defences take down 80% of targets. Ukrainian drones stopped Russian advance on land and in the Black Sea, and devastated the Russian strategic bomber fleet. Ukraine shows besides tech we need integrated command & a new warfare ecosystem.