{"id":467985,"date":"2026-02-14T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467985\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:45:07","slug":"munich-security-conference-live-starmer-says-uk-needs-deeper-links-with-eu-and-europe-must-be-ready-to-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467985\/","title":{"rendered":"Munich Security conference live: Starmer says UK needs &#8216;deeper links&#8217; with EU, and Europe must be &#8216;ready to fight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe is a sleeping giant when it comes to defence &#8211; Starmerpublished at 09:44 GMT<\/p>\n<p>09:44 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Europe is a sleeping giant,&#8221; Starmer says, highlight how their economies &#8220;dwarf Russia&#8217;s more than ten times over&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, he notes, those have huge defence capabilities also suffer from fragmentation and duplication, which has made them &#8220;wildly inefficient&#8221;, harming their collective security. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US security umbrella has allowed us to develop these bad habits, he says, &#8220;but we must break them&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe is a sleeping giant when it comes to defence &#8211; Starmerpublished at 09:44 GMT 09:44 GMT The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-467985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}