{"id":1044215,"date":"2026-10-17T08:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044215"},"modified":"2026-10-17T08:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:36:40","slug":"europe-must-tackle-dependency-on-starlink-eu-leaders-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/17\/europe-must-tackle-dependency-on-starlink-eu-leaders-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe must tackle dependency on Starlink, EU leaders say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU leaders grappled Friday with how to tackle Ukraine&#8217;s dependence on Starlink satellite communications supporting its battlefield operations, as Kyiv was rocked by disruptions to the US-owned system.<\/p>\n<p>The bloc&#8217;s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Europe did not have a readily available alternative to technology controlled by Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX, as she arrived at an EU summit where the issue will be high on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starlink is really necessary for Ukraine and unfortunately in (the) short term Europe can&#8217;t replace this capability,&#8221; Kallas said before the talks, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was also in attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU leaders grappled Friday with how to tackle Ukraine&#8217;s dependence on Starlink satellite communications supporting its battlefield operations, as Kyiv was rocked by disruptions to the US-owned system. The bloc&#8217;s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Europe did not have a readily available alternative to technology controlled by Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX, as she arrived at an EU summit where the issue will be high on the agenda. &#8220;Starlink is really necessary for Ukraine and unfortunately in (the) short term Europe can&#8217;t replace this capability,&#8221; Kallas said before the talks, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was also in attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044233,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044215\/revisions\/1044233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}