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Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama blamed a “hybrid war” for fuelling unrest in his country on Tuesday, after a week of violent anti-government demonstrations in the capital Tirana.

The European Commission wants to create a European Security Council to better prepare the bloc for sabotage and external threats. In her State of the Union speech, President Ursula von der Leyen supported the plan as the EU’s answer to sabotage, cyberattacks and drone incursions from Russia. “Europe needs its own counter-hybrid playbook,” she said.

Russia should feel the pain of Europe’s response to hybrid attacks, the European Commissioner for Defence, Andrius Kubilius, has told Euronews, warning that President Vladimir Putin is seeking to occupy “the hearts and the minds” of Europe’s population.

The EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said European foreign affairs and defence ministers urged her and the EU executive to not to duplicate North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) protocol when developing a playbook to deal with hybrid threats.