Andrius Kubilius: EU Commissioner for Common Armaments | EUROtoday

The designated EU Commissioner for Defence and Space made the next calculation on Tuesday. “The member states are now spending 300 billion euros on defence, the Americans around 800 billion,” mentioned Andrius Kubilius. “And the EU is coming up with 1.5 billion.” The man from Lithuania, 67 years previous and nonetheless a member of the European Parliament, answered questions on his appointment within the Strasbourg plenary corridor. He appeared properly ready. Kubilius has been given the function his nation had requested for. And he has already acted within the spirit of his future boss: Kubilius is to determine joint European armament tasks and persuade the member states to take a position far more than earlier than.