After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union injected greater urgency by announcing a fresh plan covering four main pillars: so-called “multimodal corridors”; regulatory reform; resilience and preparedness and “dedicated partnerships”, which essentially means close co-operation between the EU and NATO, to which end America, Canada, Norway and Britain have all joined pesco. Since last year’s summit in Vilnius, the alliance has been working both to ensure that 300,000 troops are kept in a state of high readiness and on establishing the force structures to deal with an attack wherever it may come from. Do you think that Europe is panicking for no good reason ?

