欧盟防务专员安德留斯·库比柳斯周二警告称，按购买力平价计算，俄罗斯明年的军费开支将几乎与欧洲合计的国防开支持平。
EU defense commissioner Andrius Kubilius warned on Tuesday that Russian military spending next year will nearly match Europe’s combined defense spending in purchasing power parity terms.
库比柳斯在柏林安全会议的一个小组讨论中警告说：“俄罗斯的军事潜力并未减弱。如果按购买力平价计算，俄罗斯准备花费的金额几乎与我们欧洲人明年将要花费的金额相同，约为5000亿欧元（约合5590亿美元）。”他在强调加强北约内部欧洲支柱必要性的同时，指出随着美国政府将优先事项转向印太地区，欧洲人必须在存在能力缺口的领域进行投资。
“Russian military potential is not diminishing,” Kubilius warned during a panel discussion at the Berlin Security Conference. “If you calculate in purchasing power parity terms, Russia is ready to spend almost the same amount that we Europeans are going to spend next year, around €500 billion ($559 billion).”While stressing the need to strengthen the European pillar within NATO, Kubilius underlined that Europeans must invest in areas where they face capability gaps as the US administration shifts its priorities toward the Indo-Pacific.
他说：“美国人将越来越多地关注印太地区。当我们谈论需要在欧洲大陆发展什么能力时，必须把这一点考虑在内。”库比柳斯重申，欧盟加强防务能力的计划并非北约的替代方案。
“Americans will pay more and more attention towards the Indo-Pacific region. And that is what we need to have in mind when we are talking about what capabilities we need to develop here on the European continent,” he said. Kubilius reiterated that the EU’s plans to strengthen its defense capabilities are not an alternative to NATO.
他说：“欧盟和北约之间确实不存在竞争。北约是军事力量，欧盟是经济力量。我们的任务是如何将这两大优势结合起来，转化为能够威慑俄罗斯的欧洲防务能力。”
“There really is no competition between the European Union and NATO,” he said. “NATO is a military might, EU is an economic power. And our task is how to combine these two strengths into European defense capabilities which should deter Russia,” he added.