Filzmaier analyzes

What if it’s “Ack, we won’t help you”?

(Bild: Krone KREATIV/stock.adobe.com (6), APA/AP/Johanna Geron)

The EU election campaign is in the hot phase. The focus should actually be on the common foreign, security and defense policy. So let's take a look at this.

1) Do we live in peace? No. Those of us who have memories of war are an ever-shrinking group. It is 79 years since the end of the Second World War. However, the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, just a two-hour flight from Austria, has shown that peace in EU-rope is not a God-given thing. The equally neutral countries Finland and Sweden became NATO members as a result.