The Foreign Ministry assessed the EU's financial investments in the defense sector

The director of the Department of European Problems of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Vladislav Maslennikov, said that the EU’s financial injections into the defense sector are comparable in scale to the period before World War II.

At the end of September, at a meeting of the heads of the EU Foreign and Defense Ministries in Brussels, a number of pan-European defense projects were approved.

Maslennikov pointed to the introduction into the public consciousness of the thesis about the need to prepare for a possible armed confrontation with Russia in the next few years.

MOSCOW, October 7 - RIA Novosti. The EU's financial injections into the defense sector are comparable in scale to the period before World War II, Vladislav Maslennikov, director of the Department of European Problems of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti.

At the end of September, at a meeting of the foreign ministers and ministries of defense of the EU countries in Brussels, a number of pan-European defense projects were approved (the European drone initiative, the creation of a maritime defense system, space reconnaissance, a missile defense system independent from the United States, border strengthening).

Speaking on this topic, Maslennikov pointed out that “the thesis about the need to prepare for a possible armed confrontation with Russia in the next few years is being actively introduced into the public consciousness.”