{"id":459871,"date":"2026-07-14T12:29:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/07\/14\/difesa-i-volenterosi-danno-vita-alla-coalizione-antimissile-balistico\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:09:54","slug":"defense-the-willing-countries-establish-the-anti-ballistic-missile-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/07\/14\/defense-the-willing-countries-establish-the-anti-ballistic-missile-coalition\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense: the “willing” countries establish the Anti-Ballistic Missile Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Europe establishes a new anti-missile alliance. Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom have reached an agreement to establish a new defence framework to complement NATO, forming a purely defensive anti-ballistic missile coalition<\/strong>. This is the main outcome of the meeting of the so-called “coalition of the willing,” the group of countries committed to developing new strategies for common security. The new defence alliance is enshrined in the joint declaration <\/a>issued by the 10 governments (with Italy represented by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister, Antonio Tajani, in place of the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni) at the conclusion of the Paris meeting.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

The meeting of the coalition of the willing recognises \u201cthe growing threat posed by ballistic missiles<\/strong> and the increasing importance of defence capabilities for the security of the European continent,<\/strong>\u201d which is why the new framework has been established, with a mandate to proceed \u201cat pace to develop an Anti-Ballistic capability” to counter enemy missile attacks. Through this initiative, the Europeans intend “<\/span><\/span>to deter and defeat future missile threats <\/strong>\u2014 developed through collective effort,<\/strong> technological openness, and trusted industrial cooperation.”<\/span><\/span> This solution will not conflict with NATO; on the contrary, \u201cit will complement existing ballistic missile defence systems<\/strong>, including sovereign European solutions already acquired, or to be acquired by participating countries.<\/strong>\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While acknowledging the growing missile threat, no explicit mention is made of hostile countries, but Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia is certainly the main actor to be wary of. The de facto air defence coalition integrates Ukraine at the European level, starting with the military aspect, as explicitly requested by the European Union<\/a>. \u201cWe acknowledge the unique experience of Ukraine, gained in defence against Russia\u2019s war of aggression,\u201d the leaders write in the statement. The initiative \u201cremains open to other nations that share its principles and objectives,\u201d in what is a clear invitation to join in order to increase both the number of members and the capacity to respond to threats.<\/p>\n

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The decision taken in Paris by the leaders of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. Open to all, it aims to integrate existing systems to enhance response capacity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":459854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30809,25707],"tags":[27336,26261,26267,26180,26005,30795,30062,25745,27637],"class_list":["post-459871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-security","category-world-politics","tag-antonio-tajani-en-2","tag-coalition-of-the-willing-en","tag-danimarca-at","tag-safety-en","tag-kingdom-united-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459872,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459871\/revisions\/459872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}