The eagerly awaited NATO summit ended in Brussels, reaffirming the centrality of China’s challenge to Western interests.
Cyber threats more and more frequent
“We are increasingly confronted with cyber and hybrid threats, including disinformation campaigns, and the malicious use of increasingly sophisticated emerging technologies. Rapid advances in space are affecting our security. The Alliance’s greatest responsibility is protect and defend our territories and our populations from attacks and we will face all the threats and challenges that affect Euro-Atlantic security “, reads the final declaration of NATO leaders. Among the threats also “climate change”, which has an impact on the security of the Alliance.
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Draghi: focus on both the Mediterranean
“Security conditions are still evolving rapidly. However, one thing remains the same: the centrality of the most powerful and successful Alliance in history,” Prime Minister Mario Draghi said at the Summit. “As we try to turn the page after one of the most serious health, economic and financial crises in contemporary history, we recognize that security is a necessary prerequisite to preserve and strengthen our democracies and our economic and social systems”, he stressed, explaining that “it is it is essential that NATO addresses the transatlantic community “. “NATO’s deterrence and defense position must be implemented through a broad spectrum approach. We should look at all strategic directions, from the Indo-Pacific region to a constant focus on the instability of the Mediterranean region,” he continued. “Italy is committed to further contributing to the Alliance’s deterrence and defense strategy as well as to NATO operations and missions and to contributing to our national defense spending, as it has always done. Italy fully supports the decisions to initiate a process of further adaptation for the next decade and updating of the 2010 Strategic Concept, based on the three fundamental tasks: collective defense, crisis management, cooperation in security matters “, underlined the head of the Italian government.
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Biden: Born stronger than ever
“Our NATO alliance is stronger than ever. Today I will join our 29 allies to discuss our collective defense, including that of Russian aggression, China’s strategic challenges, malicious cyber activities, terrorism and climate change.” , Joe Biden tweeted during the summit.
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Erdogan: we are reliable allies but we do not receive support
“Turkey is at the forefront of fighting terrorism, inside and outside our borders. But unfortunately we have not seen the support and solidarity we hoped to have from our allies. We have” rather “testified that the circle of terrorist leaders has been supported in every possible way, as if they were legitimate actors “. Thus the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a video message to the forum of the German Marshall Fund, on the sidelines of the NATO summit. Erdogan explained that Turkey acts as a “reliable ally”, and welcomed in a positive way the “revitalization of the channels of dialogue with Greece”.
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