EU officials and leaders are getting behind the idea, while lawmakers are drafting legal options.
“We lack a proper united leadership platform to discuss the most important European defense issues,” EU Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said last week. “It’s now an urgent task to turn this idea into reality.”
Sergey Lagodinsky, a German European Parliament lawmaker and vice president of the Greens group, is proposing a council gathering the leaders of Europe’s big six — Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland and the U.K. — alongside two rotating seats for smaller countries and the European Parliament president.
“We should have had it long ago,” said Lagodinsky. “Look at Greenland … we cannot wait for 27 [countries] to agree that an invasion in Greenland is a threat to our peace. We need a unit which is permanently and easily convened, which would be a strategic cockpit of the European Union” to “make decisions faster.”
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Politico: Greenland crisis revives calls for European ‘security council’ https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-greenland-crisis-revives-calls-for-european-security-council/
Speech by Commissioner Kubilius at the Folk och Försvar – National Conference 2026: “Europe Under Pressure” https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_26_69