HR/VP blog - As in previous years, we have compiled a book bringing together blogs, speeches and op-eds published in 2024. It is titled Europe in "the Arc of Fire" because our geopolitical environment has been defined this year by multiple conflicts and crises. Against this backdrop, it has never been so urgent to place security and defence at the top of the EU’s agenda, topics which have been at...

HRVP Blog – In the wake of the US elections, I travelled to Kyiv once more with a message of EU support for Ukraine. Despite Russian pressure in Donetsk and relentless attack on civilian targets and energy infrastructure, I found a country determined to prevail. And with a clear ask from the EU: more arms, more ammunition and more funding for Ukraine’s innovative defence industry.