Why Does the EU Link Its Security to the Gulf?

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00:00In your session here at the Manama Dialogue, you said that the EU considers its security and defence integral,

00:08or the same as the security and defence of the Gulf. Why? And can you explain to us how it's so...

00:14Yeah, let's look at the 12 days war between Israel and Iran.

00:18We have and we had exactly the same concerns of the Gulf countries.

00:24Nuclear, the risk of the spillover of the war, the point of the Strait of Ormuz and the closing of the Strait of Ormuz,

00:35the block of the Strait of Ormuz, and even the contamination in case of specific bombardments on some sites, nuclear sites.

00:45So, if you look at the concerns, the concerns are the same, even if this region is relatively far from our borders.

00:53Why? Because the interest of the Middle East in having stability here,

00:58it gives them the opportunity even of having prosperity domestically.

01:03Exactly for us, if the Middle East is not stable, our prosperity cannot be developed.