The European Defence Agency has presented its report on the EU defence spending in the last year. While costs are up year-on-year, countries have started to buy in bulk, especially quickly accessible and non-European solutions. Experts therefore warn that this will only harm common defence. Slovakia has improved especially in investments, Hungary is the EU leader in these.

Russia is not giving up in Ukraine and its combat capacities must not be underestimated, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, warned after the meeting of the Alliance's ministers. According to him, Putin shows no signs of fatigue. Dimitro Kuleba, the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, called on the defence industry to increase capacity and to cooperate even more "as one Euro-Atlantic complex".

Prague expects "tangible results". It wants to focus on Ukraine, as it would like to see two specific "political outcomes" in this field.

MEPs adopted their position on a bill to strengthen media transparency and independence in the EU on Tuesday in Strasbourg. 448 MEPs voted in favour, 102 were against and 75 abstained from voting on the European Media Freedom Act.