The European Union is dangerously late in adopting defense legislative packages, and this slowness could have major strategic consequences in an increasingly tense geopolitical context, said European Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius, quoted by Euractiv. According to the cited source, Andrius Kubilius expressed this dissatisfaction to MEPs on the European Parliament's Security and Defense Committee and explicitly warned that "Putin will not wait for us to finish the last trilogue to test us.