Defence Minister Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos’ statement at the beginning of the Informal Meeting of E.U. Defence Ministers

September 2, 2021

The Minister of National Defence Mr. Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos made the following statement, on 02 September 2021, at the entrance into the Brdo Congress Centre, in Ljubljana, where the Informal Meeting of EU Defence Ministers is held:

We come here today to discuss the state of play on current developments.
I think it is time Europe asserts itself more on Security and Defence given also the recent developments in Afghanistan.”