El Rey Felipe VI ha advertido este viernes de que el refuerzo de las capacidades de seguridad y defensa europeas ha dejado de ser un objetivo secundario para convertirse en una “necesidad real y apremiante”, subrayando que no puede abordarse al margen de la OTAN.
Durante el discurso de clausura de la promoción Jacques Delors 2024/2025 del Colegio de Europa en Brujas (Bélgica), el monarca español destacó que la erosión del orden internacional ha encendido todas las alarmas, y que la Unión Europea debe estar preparada para responder.
00:00Time to comprehend that the Union is not a community solely of rights and freedoms, but also of commitments and duties.
00:10We must ask ourselves not what Europe can do for us, but what we Europeans of the 21st century can do for Europe.
00:19We cannot begin to strengthen our defensive muscle. It would be senseless to do so without considering our alliances, and particularly our North Atlantic alliance, NATO, on which security in Europe so largely depends.
00:40Because the transatlantic bond, our flagship strategic framework, is not just a political choice determined by chance, it is a way of understanding our place in the world, a values-based community forged in the tumultuous years of the 20th century, which is more vital than ever now, at this point in the 21st century.