{"id":470676,"date":"2026-11-09T18:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/11\/09\/dalla-commissione-ue-10-milioni-alla-romania-a-sostegno-delle-operazioni-nel-mar-nero\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T19:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T18:14:24","slug":"the-eu-commission-allocates-10-million-to-romania-to-support-operations-in-the-black-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/11\/09\/the-eu-commission-allocates-10-million-to-romania-to-support-operations-in-the-black-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU Commission allocates 10 million to Romania to support operations in the Black Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 The EU is to allocate 10 million to “search and rescue operations” carried out by the Romanian government off the coast bordering the Black Sea. This was announced<\/a><\/span> today (9 November) by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong>, while visiting Bucharest as part of her \u201cBlack Sea tour\u201d, a mission that follows the Kremlin\u2019s drone attacks on several merchant ships off the Bulgarian and Romanian coasts, <\/strong>where, in recent months, Russian aircraft and drones have repeatedly violated the airspace of several EU Member States. The financial aid pledged today \u201cwill help strengthen your capacity to respond swiftly and effectively\u201d to such attacks, the President explained. <\/p>\n

During a press conference, von der Leyen announced that \u201cin agreement with Romania and Bulgaria, we will speed up work on the Maritime Safety Centre<\/a> in the Black Sea, setting a clear timetable for its completion and allocating dedicated funding of \u20ac50 million<\/strong>\u201d. The President clarified that the idea had been \u201cfirst put forward in mid-2025,\u201d but that, since last year, \u201cthe security situation has deteriorated much more rapidly than any of us had anticipated.\u201d <\/p>\n

In addition to these two initiatives, von der Leyen discussed the matter with the President of Romania, Nicu\u0219or Dan<\/strong>,<\/p>\n

on the need to bring an end to the war in Ukraine<\/strong>. For this reason, \u201cI welcome the peace talks to be held tomorrow in Abu Dhabi<\/a><\/strong>, which will also be attended by a European delegation\u201d, she added. <\/p>\n

Another issue concerns \u201cthe strengthening of maritime surveillance,<\/strong>\u201d which includes \u201cthe use of satellite imagery provided by the Copernicus programme\u201d \u2013 the European Earth observation and monitoring programme, managed by the European Commission in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and other partners \u2013 described as \u201ca tangible added value that Europe is able to offer the region immediately.\u201d <\/p>\n

The meeting\u2019s agenda also included \u201csecurity in the information space,<\/strong>\u201d which represents not \u201cmerely a communication challenge, but a security risk,\u201d the President clarified. Von der Leyen reported that \u201chostile actors are turning the information space into a weapon; incidents involving drones are often accompanied by information manipulation and interference from external actors.\u201d <\/p>\n

Finally, \u201cstrengthening our defence capabilities.<\/strong>\u201d The head of the Berlaymont Building pointed out that \u201cEurope is investing heavily in defence readiness.\u201d These measures include defence projects of common interest in which Romania is also participating. For example, \u201cthere is SAFE, our joint defence procurement programme,<\/strong>\u201d thanks to which \u201cRomania will receive over \u20ac16 billion and is already setting a good example with the joint drone initiative launched together with Ukraine.\u201d Concluding her speech, von der Leyen emphasised that \u201cEurope needs this kind of cooperation,\u201d recalling that \u201ctwo weeks ago, the Commission launched a second call for proposals under SAFE,\u201d making over \u20ac21 billion<\/a> available to Member States. \u201cI strongly encourage Romania to make full use of this opportunity to invest in the capabilities needed to better protect the country and the Black Sea region,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ursula von der Leyen made the announcement in Romania, following the attacks carried out by the Kremlin in recent weeks against several merchant ships off the country\u2019s coast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":470664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"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":[25707],"tags":[30313,30791,33576,35217,31284,35960],"class_list":["post-470676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-mar-nero-en","tag-cremlino","tag-palazzo-berlaymont","tag-romania-en","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470676","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\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470677,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470676\/revisions\/470677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}