Delegation for Relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly – Ordinary Meeting – DNAT Preparatory Meeting for the NATO PA Annual Session, November 2026, Berlin

Name: Delegation for Relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly – Ordinary Meeting – DNAT Preparatory Meeting for the NATO PA Annual Session, November 2026, Berlin
Uploaded: 2026-10-21T14:00:00+00:00
Duration: 1510 s

01:01 - 01:05

Speaker 1

And now we are waiting for the second part. The first one was visual. And now we are waiting for the second part.

02:40 - 03:02

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this meeting of the Delegation for Relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. The main purpose of our meeting today is to prepare for the upcoming NATO Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session, which will take place in Berlin from the 22nd to the 25th of November. Before we start, I would like to inform you that interpretation is available in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

06:20 - 06:22

Good afternoon, everyone.

07:40 - 07:42

Good afternoon, everyone.

08:27 - 12:08

Speaker 2

Hey, let's let's start. Welcome the colleagues. The first point is the adoption of the agenda.

If there are no amendments, the agenda of the meeting can be adopted. Second point, now we come to the approval of the minutes of the last DNAT meeting held on 8th July 2026. If there are no comments, the minutes are deemed to be approved. Third point, I have no announcements. Fourth point, before we begin, I'd like to note that it's my intention during every plenary session in Strasbourg to organize a meeting of the DNAT delegation to discuss certain NATO PA assembly dossier in greater detail with the support of various rapporteurs.

And today, dear colleagues, it's a pleasure to welcome Madame Natalia Pouzyreff, member of the Defense Committee of the French National Assembly and rapporteur of the NATO PA's Political Committee. Her report on the contribution of European allies to collective defense addresses a central question for our work: how Europe can take greater responsibility within NATO. A question for us more relevant than ever. The new US National Defense Strategy sends a clear message: European allies must take greater responsibility for their own defense.

This is a conclusion we already came to following Russia's full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine. But as we regularly stress in our resolutions, strengthening European defense does not mean weakening NATO; on the contrary, it means making the alliance stronger. And this was also a key message during our recent exchange of view with the Supreme Allied Commander Europe in SEDE Committee. And here I would like to thank the chair of the SEDE Committee and member of our delegation, Marie-Agnes, for the important work of the SEDE Committee, which is directly relevant to our discussion today. As the exchange with SACEUR reminded us, the European Union and NATO have different but complementary roles; they are separable but not separate.

Our task is therefore to avoid duplication and make sure that European investments lead to real defense capabilities. And this is where the European Parliament has an important role to play. In fact, just a short while ago, the signing ceremony took place for two important pieces of EU defense legislation: EDIRPA and ASAP. These are concrete examples of how European legislation can help strengthen our defense capabilities and, in turn, the European pillar of NATO. Another important example is military mobility.

This is an area where cooperation between the EU and NATO is particularly important. Just yesterday, Parliament, the Council, and the Commission held a trilogue on military mobility regulation. Negotiations are still ongoing, and the aim is to make it easier and faster for our armed forces to move across Europe. In sum, all these developments show why this report comes at such an important time. They also reflect our common goal to turn greater European responsibility into real capabilities for our collective defense.

12:08 - 12:16

Salvatore De Meo

Thank you once again for joining us today, and you have the floor for 10 minutes.

12:16 - 15:26

Natalia Pouzyreff

Merci, Monsieur le Président, Mesdames et Messieurs les parlementaires, merci pour cette invitation à vous présenter ce rapport sur la contribution européenne à l'OTAN. Mais en préambule, permettez-moi de vous donner quelques éléments de contexte dans lequel évolue l'Assemblée parlementaire de l'OTAN.

Une grande majorité des parlementaires présents des différentes nations de l'OTAN apportent, expriment un soutien sans faille aux Ukrainiens et à l'Ukraine en général, à sa résistance, y compris son adhésion à l'OTAN. Une adhésion qui arrivera lorsque le temps le permettra. Nous avions encore hier, avant-hier, des échanges avec les députés ukrainiens dans le cadre du Conseil interparlementaire de l'Assemblée parlementaire de l'OTAN. Et je peux vous dire que les préoccupations du côté ukrainien sont grandes compte tenu de la préparation de ces nouveaux drones à réaction de type Shahed-5 qui sont produits en grande quantité en Russie à raison d'environ 3 000 par mois. Je ne partagerai pas l'avis de Wittkop concernant la grande humanité de Poutine, mais tout cela c'est pour insister sur le fait que notre responsabilité à nous Européens est grande en tant qu'alliés eu égard au renforcement de l'alliance et à la transformation qui est en train de s'opérer.

Effectivement, il y a un rééquilibrage des responsabilités au sein de l'alliance qui n'est plus une hypothèse.

C'est un rééquilibrage qui est en cours. La guerre d'agression menée par la Russie contre l'Ukraine, la multiplication des actions hybrides contre nos sociétés et nos infrastructures, l'évolution des priorités stratégiques américaines nous obligent à repenser durablement la contribution européenne à l'OTAN. C'est le cœur du rapport que je présenterai à Berlin. Les États-Unis doivent rester pleinement engagés dans la défense conventionnelle de l'Europe, tandis que les Européens doivent maintenir et renforcer une véritable culture de dissuasion stratégique. Une Europe plus forte...

17:01 - 17:19

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