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Morning opening: Drones are not going away anytime soon
Jakub Krupa
Airspace over the Danish city of Aalborg was briefly closed again last night after unconfirmed reports of drone sightings. While no drones were eventually found, it shows how Denmark is on the edge after repeated incidents this week.
Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen conceded earlier that “there may be more to come,” as she laid bare the challenge these hybrid attacks pose for the country in a rare TV address.
She conceded that the recent events showed “vulnerabilities” in Denmark’s critical infrastructure, but urged citizens not to give in to “insecurity and division” they were meant to create.
“One time it might be drones; another – cyber-attacks, what we call disinformation, influencing elections or conspiracy theories you read online. But no matter what method we use, the goal is the same: they want to destabilise our society and they want us to no longer trust out authorities,” she warned.
I consider it a new reality that Denmark and Europe are under more violent and frequent hybrid attacks.
In a stark warning, she conceded that Europeans are likely to experience more sabotage and attacks, including on undersea cables or “direct attacks on European democracies, as we are now seeing in the small country of Moldova” which holds a key election this weekend.
As other officials before her, Frederiksen steered clear of formally assigning responsibility for the drone sightings to any particular actor, but she said “we can at least state that there is primarily one country that poses a threat to Europe’s security, and that is Russia.”
On Friday, Danish officials will join nine other countries, including Ukraine, for talks convened by the EU about the so-called “drone wall” that is meant to help countries primarily on the Eastern flank of the bloc to defend themselves from the threat from the East.
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It’s Friday, 26 September 2025, it’s Jakub Krupa here, and this is Europe Live.
Good morning.
