{"id":424260,"date":"2025-04-14T17:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/04\/14\/prima-riunione-collegio-sulla-sicurezza\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T17:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:56:13","slug":"brussels-wednesday-first-meeting-of-the-college-on-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/04\/14\/brussels-wednesday-first-meeting-of-the-college-on-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels, Wednesday first meeting of the College on security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; The European Commission&#8217;s &#8220;war room&#8221; goes active:\u00a0<strong>this week<\/strong>, the chairwoman of the EU executive, <strong>Ursula von der Leyen, chairs the first meeting of the security College<\/strong>, the new format chosen\u00a0to focus exclusively on key priority issues in this area. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/03\/10\/von-der-leyen-responds-to-second-trump-term-with-security-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Announced in early March<\/a>, marking the first 100 days of her second term at the head of the Commission, the new collegial formation will be christened on Wednesday (April 16).<\/p>\n<p>It should be remembered how <strong>&#8220;security&#8221; does not mean only and exclusively &#8220;defence.&#8221;<\/strong> The issue involves multiple realities: energy, trade, food, water, and, of course, defence. This issue was discussed by EU economic ministers at last week&#8217;s informal Eurogroup and Ecofin meetings (April 11 and 12), during which the\u00a0<strong>topic of financing the defence industry was raised with the possibility of a specially dedicated European mechanism<\/strong>. It is fair to imagine that the first meeting of the Security College may also discuss this, as well as the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/meetings\/fac\/2025\/04\/14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the subject of today&#8217;s foreign ministers&#8217; meeting (April 14)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen has promised to hold regular &#8220;targeted&#8221; meetings on anything that may pose an existential challenge to the European Union and its member states. All-new needs explain the initiative of an all-new format. There is a need &#8220;<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">to move to a mindset of preparedness,&#8221; is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/statement_25_721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the message offered by the chairwoman of the community executive at the announcement of the new types of meetings<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Von der Leyen&#8217;s conviction is that <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">&#8220;extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures,&#8221; and the Security College responds to this imperative.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">These and other defence-related issues will be discussed on April 15 in Rome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/KFGLqWl_JSY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the Connact series event<\/a> &#8220;Common European Defence: Financing and Industrial Integration.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU Commission&#8217;s agenda reports for April 16 the debut of the all-new format wanted by von der Leyen. 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