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As we took place in The NATO summit in The Hague, the confusion is all around: the anger of war, norms erode and old certainty are protested. In this test, Germany and France – with our European and transatlantic friends and allies – combined and strongly in order to defend the freedom and safety of our citizens.

The main source of the most important for Europe, Georgia did not want Georgia, then Crimea and Donbas, then in 2022, Crimea and Donbas. Russia has a methodical attempt to mandate the neighbors, tense European countries and protest in the global manner. We cannot accept this, because our goal is to maintain and protect peace on the continent.

As long as the current trajectory continues, Russia will find an unshakable determination in France and Germany. The incoming thing will determine the European stability for decades.

At the NATO summit, France and Germany will reaffirm the efforts of the United States to end the war, maintaining a strong and sustainable peace, Ukraine’s sovereignty and security. In particular, we will emphasize the urgent need for a ceasefire to increase the pressure on Russia, including urgent necessity and sanctions. We will ensure that Ukraine has created this war from prosperity, strong and security, and will never live again under the fear of Russian aggression.

Many work has already been done. The EU, member states and England supported 130 billion euros to Kiev. We condemned Russia together and sanctioned. There are more things to come. We will increase our support for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. We will collectively invest in the defense industry of Ukraine. In addition, when we are associated with England, we will make sure that Ukraine’s future military forces are equipped to prevent a fairly large and new occupation.

But our responsibilities are going out of Ukraine. We will live in a near future and allies in a world that will have other dilemmas and priorities. We will have many problems to protect the interests of terrorism, terrorism, our territory, our citizens, and all over the world outside Russia. We need to rise to these difficulties. For someone asking us, but it looks clear, and that’s what we owe because we owe our citizens.

France and Germany are now holding more than 2 percent of GDP in defense. The goal, as a result, 3.5 percent in the highest defense costs, and 1.5 percent of the efforts of 1.5 percent will be reached to reach 1.5 percent. This will be our way to strengthen NATO’s European column.

The French and German forces are already placed in Lithuania and Romania in Romania in Europe. Our troops make important contributions to Poland and Estonia, the Baltic and the Mediterranean Sea and European airspace and the union support and space operations.

Additional expenses will allow you to fill in the gaps in the military capabilities that faced the revisionist Russia. In all domains, we will work with all allies to ensure the validity of our post.

The nuclear refrain will remain the foundation of the alliance’s security. France’s independent strategic nuclear forces help significantly to the general security of NATO; The German contributes to nuclear sharing regulations. In addition, we will work with a reform of our procurement systems with the application of “Three S”: standardization, simplification and scale.

We will also try to ensure good cooperation between the EU and NATO. Powerful and more-ability European defense contributes to global and transatlantic security, and both with NATO and both are excellent and interrelated. It is important to fill in critical aptitude gaps and maintain our technological edge through the European level.

In short, to show all threats, support Ukraine and develop our determination and development of our determination to support European defense opportunities and the same equation with investment. We unite unequivocal unity, combine our commitment to the allied solidarity and the release, peace and security of our continent.