A European coalition to develop a common shield against ballistic missiles. This is the main initiative on the defense front launched on Monday, July 13 in Paris, on the occasion of the meeting of the Coalition of the Willing.
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This is a joint declaration to start the establishment of a Coalition for ballistic missile defense. The document, which takes shape after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit held on July 7 and 8 in Ankara, Turkey, was signed by the leaders of Italy, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
The goal, the declaration reads, is to rapidly develop a European defense capability that is “purely defensive” through the creation of an “integrated missile defense architecture” capable of “deterring and neutralizing future missile threats.” The first threat comes from the East, and it is Russia.
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The project will complement and integrate national systems already in service or in the process of acquisition, leveraging cooperation between defense industries, research, and operational capabilities. All this is contextualized within the progressive disengagement of the United States from the European theater, repeatedly threatened by US President Donald Trump. “Over time – reads a Moody’s report – the 50 billion dollars of new contracts announced at the Ankara summit will also help fill these capability gaps, as will the ‘NATO Innovation Scale-Up Package,’ which aims to accelerate the adoption of new innovative products in priority areas such as deep strike capability and air defense.”
The Freya system announced by Zelensky
And precisely on this point, the deployment of an “umbrella” capable of protecting the countries of the Atlantic Alliance from attacks coming from the sky, the document from the Paris meeting focuses. The idea, most likely, is to bring together forces, involving Ukraine, in the production of the Freya system, a sort of Patriot with a European twist. It was the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky himself who spoke about Freya on July 10. “It is an anti-ballistic system similar to the Patriot, but easier to mass-produce and less expensive,” he explained. “This is a European model. Our task is to bring together leaders, companies, and national security advisors and present the relevant project to the countries that can help Ukraine realize it very quickly.”
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