Published August 28, 2026last updated August 28, 2026
Dobrindt: Security task force and enhanced drone defense agreed at Baltic summit
Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt says that Baltic and European leaders at a special hybrid security meeting agreed to plans to set up a new security task force and to enhance collective drone defense capabilities.
The assembled politicians discussed “urgent security policy questions for a shared future in the Baltic Sea region,” Dobrindt said amid the meeting at the Mürwik naval training center in Flensburg on Germany’s northeast coast
“Foreign powers are trying to attack our security with hybrid measures, to destabilize our democracies, to weaken our economy,” he said. “Drone attacks, cyber attacks, spying, disinformation, arson attacks on critical infrastructure, covert operations and the use of ‘disposable agents’ are all rapidly increasing in number.”
Dobrindt warned that the recent past had shown a pronounced increase in the “quality and intensity” of such attacks and surmised that “we must prepare ourselves for the hybrid threat situation continuing to intensify.”
He said the shared goal was to bolster defense against such hybrid threats.
“We want to investigate, deter and defend altogether more quickly,” Dobrindt said, saying they wanted to work together to transform the Balitc from a “collective risk area” into a “collective defensive area.”
The assembled politicians from Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, Norway and Ireland — the current holder of the rotating EU presidency — had a working lunch at the Mürwik base amid the talks.
They were also taken out on the Baltic Sea in a German Federal Police motorboat.
