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Brussels explores the construction of a new Satic network to provide military intelligence information, as doubts about the United States’ commitment to European defense is heading.

The regime will aim to partially replace the United States, after it highlighted President Donald Trump in intelligence participation with Ukraine this month, Europe’s dependence on America.

“Given the changes in the geopolitical situation, the European Commission is considering expanding its satellite capabilities to improve the support of the spatial geographical intelligence of the security,” said the Defense and Space Commissioner Andrews Cubelius told the Financial Times.

The new satellite network will be used to detect threats such as the movement of forces and coordination of military action. Discussions have just started, but Litoanan said that the block needs a network to complete other programs used in navigation and land monitoring.

You will need to produce updated information often more than low -orbit, which monitors climate change and natural disasters but only generates every 24 hours.

When accepting that the project will be expensive and take time to build, Copellius said he would ask member states if they want a “temporary commercial approach”.

We look forward to creating a specific system as a government service control. It will have high technology and high data availability. He said the system is working in the low -Earth orbit. These networks require dozens of satellites.

He said that the best commercial systems can follow goals and military publication with updates every 30 minutes.

The committee also purchases the IRISURI, its multi -denominated broadband network in the low -Earth orbit. This year will complete the Govsatcom program, which will link the regulations of member states.

Copelius was speaking before the launch of the defense plan next week. The committee provided loans worth 150 billion euros to member states and will allow them to exclude some defensive spending from its financial bases, allowing them to adhere to up to 650 billion euros.

The plan, which FT sees, will also allow Weapons Buying Committee, Collect the demand to secure better prices.

The committee has not yet determined how to restrict spending, but President Ursula von der Lin said that money should be spent on European products.

Copellius said that the countries listed in this test will include Norway and the “hope” of the United Kingdom.

He said that Türkiye “is still in discussion.” But he pointed out that Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland, who carries the round president of the European Union, met the President of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on March 13, who was a “visible symbol”.

He said that the money can also be used to buy weapons from Ukraine for its armed forces. He said they were half the price of Westerners and “of course supported the Ukrainian economy.”

Copellius said the plan will highlight the strategic areas in which the European Union countries depend on the United States. This includes air capacity, air fuel, warning and warning air.

It also gives priority to the missile defense system, which may cost 500 billion euros.

“We are naked,” he said. “Will we develop this air defense in each country alone or collectively? I feel it is better to have a joint coordination system to cover the entire region. But this is not for us to decide.”