EU Defence Chief Calls for 'Big Bang' Spending Rise as Europe Eyes 2030 Threat

European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius is urging a dramatic escalation in European defence spending, warning the continent must be prepared for a potential Russian attack by 2030 and arguing that drones, satellites and space capabilities are now as strategically essential as conventional forces. He frames greater European defence independence as the only credible path to preserving peace, drawing lessons directly from the war in Ukraine. As an END X working interpretation, this represents a concrete structural step toward independent European strategic capacity — one of the specific signposts the framework identifies as movement toward the consolidation of political and military authority above individual nations that Daniel and Revelation associate with a final European power bloc.