Europe is a sleeping giant when it comes to defence – Starmerpublished at 09:44 GMT
09:44 GMT
The Nato alliance is a phenomenon in human history, he says hailing the alliance, but notes that we need to create a more European version.
“Europe is a sleeping giant,” Starmer says, highlight how their economies “dwarf Russia’s more than ten times over”.
But, he notes, those have huge defence capabilities also suffer from fragmentation and duplication, which has made them “wildly inefficient”, harming their collective security.
The US security umbrella has allowed us to develop these bad habits, he says, “but we must break them”.