Name: Committee on Security and Defence Ordinary meeting
Uploaded: 2026-11-10T15:50:08+00:00
Duration: 5284 s

00:04 - 03:04

Christophe Gomart

PPE Député européen

Vice-president | Commission de la sécurité et de la défense

Colleagues, we have to adopt the agenda. Dear colleagues, let us proceed with the adoption of the agenda if there are no amendments, the agenda of the meeting can be adopted. I have no chair announcements. The next point is an update on the European Peace Facility, including recently adopted support measures. For this item, I welcome Dorota Dlouchy-Suliga, Head of Division for the European Peace Facility at the EEAS.

The European Peace Facility is a unique, off-budget instrument, with a financial ceiling of 17 billion for 2021 to 2027, is an important tool for the EU presence and influence all around the world. We very much welcome its resumption for Ukraine. Our institution repeatedly called on the Council to urgently resolve the deadlock over the Ukraine assistance found under the European Peace Facility, which is essential for the implementation of the EU's long-term security commitments to Ukraine. Now it's essential to make up for wasted time and to provide Ukraine with all the necessary support as a matter of urgency. But we know that the European Peace Facility is not only for Ukraine and the measures cover a wide range of countries and areas.

I would like to flag a few. For Moldova, which is highly affected by Russia's war of aggressions against Ukraine, EPF measures were instrumental in strengthening its defense capabilities. However, with an increasing number of airspace violation, is the EU ready to step up its support through this instrument to further strengthen the security of Moldova? For Lebanon, we just had an exchange of views on the EU on the new EU support mission to Lebanon. Part of the European Peace Facility equipment goes to Lebanese armed forces units operating in the south, an area that is still very volatile and will see UNIFIL withdraw.

Who carries out end-use monitoring there, and how do you make sure this equipment is not diverted? For the assistance measures to African countries, one of the concerns could be that the support provided through these measures look too fragmented and the focus is short term. Is there any reflection on this or any argument to counter this narrative? Briefly, under the operations pillar, we have several EU military missions and operations benefiting from the European Peace Facility financing. However, these missions have mandates that go well beyond 2027.

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