VOX POPULI OF POLITICAL PARTIES ⟩ Ilmar Raag: even 10 percent defense spending would not make a difference

US President Donald Trump in Washington on February 11, 2025, and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on February 13, 2025. Photo: ALLISON ROBBERT

The new US administration believes that Europe must rapidly strengthen its defense and take on the primary burden of a peacekeeping operation in Ukraine, while the French president has invited the leaders of selected European countries to Paris to discuss this. What are the main tasks of Estonia's foreign and defense policy in this situation?