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“Contrary to what some may say, woke decadent, Europe is not facing civilizational erasure,” Kaja Kallas said at the Munich Security Conference during a panel titled “Europeans Assemble! Reclaiming Agency in a Rougher World.”
Kallas argued that global interest in the European project remains strong.
“People still want to join our club and not just fellow Europeans,” she said, adding that during a visit to Canada last year she was told that more than 40% of Canadians would be interested in joining the European Union.
She said citizens across the 27-member bloc want the EU “to take a stronger role in the world, to defend our values, to take care of our people and to push humanity forward.”
Addressing Russia, Kallas accused Moscow of seeking to destabilize Europe through hybrid tactics.
“It already seeks to cripple economies through cyberattacks, disrupt satellites, sabotage undersea cables, fracture alliances with disinformation, coerce countries by weaponizing oil and gas, and, of course, there is also the nuclear threat,” she said.
At the same time, she argued that Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine has exposed its limitations.
“Russia is no superpower after more than a decade of conflict, including four years of full-scale war in Ukraine. Russia has barely advanced beyond the 2014 lines, and the cost is 1.2 million casualties today. Russia is broken. Its economy is in shreds,” she said.
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On potential peace arrangements, Kallas said any settlement must apply equally to both sides.
“If Ukraine’s military is to be limited in size, Russia should be too,” she said.
Kallas also stressed that transatlantic ties remain essential despite policy differences.
“America and Europe are intertwined, have been in the past and will be in the future,” she said, while acknowledging that “it is also clear that we don’t see eye to eye in all the issues.”
Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics, speaking on the same panel, highlighted Ukraine’s potential role in Europe’s future defense framework.
“If Ukraine becomes EU member state, I think that clause is going to be a very, very real one, because Ukraine has now such military capability, like it or not, most of our countries do not have,” he said.
Rinkevics pointed to progress in military coordination across Europe, describing improvements in cross-border logistics as “almost like creating a military Schengen.”
Still, he cautioned against duplicating NATO structures.
“We have been, particularly in Latvia, always very cautious that we do not duplicate NATO, because that’s important,” he said, expressing skepticism toward proposals for a unified EU army.
“I have been always skeptical about putting a political slogan, but then having completely different answers what we understand.”
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