drone incursions across EU countries \u2014 including Denmark<\/a> where the meetings were being held \u2014 Mr Martin said that Ireland will rely on the expertise of other countries to examine the risks.<\/p>\n\n I think it makes a lot of sense that we would work with other member states who may have particular expertise to develop stronger technological capability in respect of drones, for example, in respect of protecting subsea cables, cybersecurity as well.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
\u201cThese are the modern threats, and we have witnessed reckless manifestations on behalf of Russia in respect of drone violation of airspace of member states in terms of cybersecurity [and] attacks on certain aspects of member states\u2019 activities and utilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are all, unfortunately, necessary responses that we need to take.\u201d<\/p>\n
The defence session also discussed the idea of a European \u201cdrone wall\u201d.<\/p>\n
Discussions on defence took up most of the meeting, with discussions on Ukraine only starting in the late afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At one stage, there were discussions of the leaders returning to the venue to continue their meetings at 9.30pm following a dinner at the Danish royal residence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, the meeting ultimately finished at 6.30pm.<\/p>\n
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen proposed \u201creparations loans\u201d for Ukraine that would see the country receive loans secured against \u201cmobilised Russian assets\u201d. The EU had previously argued that frozen Russian assets should not be touched.<\/p>\n
Ukraine will only have to pay back the loans if Russia pays reparations for the damage it has caused since the outbreak of the war. Ms von der Leyen said:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n We are not confiscating the assets, but we are taking the cash balances for loans to Ukraine.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
The Taoiseach stated that Ireland is supportive of further sanctions on Russia and reparations loans.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the principle of where a state like Russia causes immense destruction and damage to a state like Ukraine, that it should be paying reparations ultimately,\u201d he said. \u201cThe idea that authoritarian states can wage war and expect others to have to reconstruct afterwards is a principle, I think, needs to be shed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlternative approaches need to be developed. So, to provide deterrence for the future and so we can protect people\u2019s territorial integrity and sovereignty into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
The meeting of European leaders will continue this week as the European Political Community meets in Copenhagen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This involves the leaders of the EU member states and nearly two dozen other countries, including the UK and Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to attend the meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland will collaborate with other EU states with expertise on drones, protection of undersea cables, and cyberattacks amid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29662,13308,61,60,43,3589,2040],"class_list":["post-55461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cybercrime","tag-defence-forces","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}