Defence is no longer free, Romanian interim President Ilie Bolojan tells Euronews

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Defence is no longer free, Romanian interim President Ilie Bolojan tells Euronews  In an Euronews Romania interview ahead of a crucial presidential election on Sunday, Ilie Bolojan warned that the scale of the hybrid threat from Russia will demand increased spending to keep his country safe.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/05/14/defence-is-no-longer-free-romanian-interim-president-ilie-bolojan-tells-euronews  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00We have a war on the granite, and every Roman rational

00:07starts to understand that apararea is not a free service.

00:13The fact that we are sure that we are not sure is a problem

00:17that comes from the same.

00:19The aparation means a lot of costs,

00:21and one of the different perspectives on the United States,

00:27which is the principal contributor to NATO,

00:30which is our support of the aparation and the European Union,

00:33was that the European Union,

00:37that while the United States are on the 3% of the PIBs

00:41for the aparation of the aparation,

00:46the European Union has reached the 2,2-2,3%

00:51and they need to increase the budget for aparation.

00:56We, being the most close to the east,

01:02the conflict in Poland,

01:03the Baltic Sea,

01:05we are sure that we are seeing this powerful danger

01:08and that Romania, as well as other countries,

01:12will need to increase the aparation of the aparation.

01:15The United States,

01:16the European Union and the United States,

01:17the European Union and the United States,

01:18we need to make our investment in the EU.

01:20And that is not another way to the European Union.

01:21And that that is what we think about the EU?

01:22where there is no authority, where there is no capacity to take decision to make decisions,

01:30because the political world has no conflict, not even understand them,

01:36but the political system is divided,

01:38and this state is to consume a few energy,

01:44and to solve the interne problems,

01:48and not to make any politics that are going to the maximum potential.

01:52The interest of our country is that the Ukrainian front is not to go,

01:57because every approach to Russia, every advance to the West,

02:02on the Litoral of the Mare-Negre, for the Republic of Moldova,

02:06was an agravant factor for Romania and the security of Europe.

02:11So I've supported this policy because, first of all,

02:15this is the interest of our country and of Europe,

02:18but also of solidarity for Ukraine,

02:22because they do not only fight for Russia.

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