Von der Leyen Warns Europe: Russian Hybrid Escalation Is the New Normal
🇪🇺 BRUSSELS — She named a pattern; the harder question is what the EU does next. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Von der Leyen framing Leipzig as part of a systemic Russian escalation — not an isolated incident — shifts EU institutional language from incident-response to structural threat. That framing obligates member states to harden critical infrastructure collectively, not bilaterally. With Article 5 consultations already live after Jänschwalde, Brussels is now racing to match NATO's tempo with its own policy architecture.
