Committee on Security and Defence Ordinary meeting Joint meeting Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
3 November 2026
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SEDE European Parliament
Follow its sittings00:06 - 01:52
Speaker 1
Colleagues, we go on. The next item is a briefing from NATO on Operation Baltic Sentry. For this item, we have the pleasure to welcome Dr. Christian Buck, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Operations. In the context of Russia's ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine, the Baltic Sea has become a key theatre for Russian hybrid war attacks. Airspace violation and an aggressive military posture, sabotage of undersea infrastructure, GPS jamming, activities of Russia's shadow fleet, all unfortunately represent a reality we must confront today and every day.
The EU is contributing to countering these attacks, including through sanctions and other measures on Russia's shadow fleet, as well as through actions supporting the security and resilience of underwater infrastructure in line with the EU Action Plan on Cable Security. We will return on this topic again in December to focus on the EU's response. As we would expect, these measures are complementary to NATO efforts to constrain and contest Russia's aggressive actions. Operation Baltic Sentry, playing a crucial role in protecting maritime infrastructure in the region, is a case in point. Dr. Buck, we are interested in the role and impact of Operation Baltic Sentry, as well as in NATO's additional vigilance activities, notably Operations Eastern and Arctic Sentry.
More broadly, we would also be interested in how this model contributes to the implementation of the SACEUR's theory of victory. Mr. Buck, you have the floor for 12 minutes. Thank you.
01:52 - 02:16
Speaker 2
Thank you, Chair, members of the European Parliament, dear EU friends. Good afternoon. I'm grateful for the opportunity to engage with SEDE today. I think it's important to talk to each other in the current security environment that the Chair has sketched out. And NATO-EU cooperation is essential, and has probably also never been as strong as it is now.
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