The Russian Foreign Ministry notes the transformation of the EU into a military-political bloc

MOSCOW, October 7 - RIA Novosti. The degeneration of the European Union into an aggressive military-political bloc is beyond doubt, Vladislav Maslennikov, director of the department of European problems at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti.

At the end of September, at a meeting of EU foreign and defense ministers 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).

“The degeneration of the EU from an economic union into an aggressive military-political bloc is beyond doubt,” Maslennikov said, commenting on the approval of these projects.