# ‘We have to close defence gaps urgently’: EU Parliament foreign affairs chief McAllister

https://mins.news/en/video/83775

- France 24 English, 2026-10-02 15:58 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv4CIZQHD5Q

> David McAllister, chair of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, discusses the security threats facing Europe and the defence gaps the EU urgently needs to close. He says the EU is ‘not at war with the Russian Federation, but we are no longer at peace with Russia’, and remains too dependent on US capabilities to make sovereign decisions in some defence areas.

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