FILE PHOTO: European Commissioner for Defense and Space Andrius Kubilius speaks during a press conference, on the day of Weimar Triangle meeting on Ukraine at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Madrid, Spain, March 31, 2025. REUTERS/Juan Medina/File Photo
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union will deploy additional satellites in low Earth orbit to strengthen resilience against GPS interferences and will improve capabilities to detect it, EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said on Monday.
His remarks followed an incident on Sunday in which the GPS system aboard European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's aircraft was jammed en route to Bulgaria. Bulgarian authorities suspect the jamming was due to due to interference by Russia, an EU spokesperson said.
(Reporting by Charlotte Van Campenhout, Editing by Bart Meijer)
