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Press Releases
Unofficial EU defence minister meeting in Brussels
The defence ministers of the European Union will convene for an informal meeting in Brussels on 30 August 2024.
Permanent Secretary Esa Pulkkinen from the Ministry of Defence will represent Finland on behalf of Minister of Defence Antti Häkkänen.
The ministers will discuss the EU's military support to Ukraine, the military crisis management and defence readiness of the EU, and defence financing. A working lunch to discuss the European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen) will be organised in connection with the meeting.
Inquiries: Special Adviser Anna Hernberg, Defence Cooperation Unit, on the unofficial EU defence minister meeting, tel. +358 50 305 7703, and Head of Communications Kristian Vakkuri, on the communications matters, tel. +358 295 140123. The email addresses of government officials are in the form firstname.lastname@gov.fi