Europe plans to build a high-tech 'drone wall'
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
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From the BBC World Service: Some European Union countries have backed plans for the new defense system to keep out unmanned aircraft from Russia. But how will it work, and what's the price tag? In France hundreds of thousands of workers have walked out over looming budget cuts and pension reforms. Today marks the 75th anniversary of The Turing Test, to tell the difference between a human and a machine. And we hear how Chilean businesses are adapting — or not — to an ageing workforce.
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| 0:39.5 | Europe plans to build a high-tech drone wall, but how will it work and what's the price tag? |
| 0:45.0 | Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:49.5 | I'm William Lee Adams. Good morning. |
| 0:52.2 | Let's start with those plans backed by some European Union states |
| 0:55.5 | to create a so-called drone wall to keep out unmanned aircraft from Russia. A summit in the Danish |
| 1:01.3 | capital, Copenhagen, follows a series of Russian incursions into EU airspace and comes just days |
| 1:06.8 | after mystery drone flights forced the closure of airports in Denmark. |
| 1:15.3 | This is Marco Mikulsson, MP and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Estonian Parliament. |
| 1:17.0 | The aim is to get wall done by 2030. |
| 1:21.2 | This is five years from now. |
| 1:23.2 | We needed it yesterday. |
| 1:24.9 | And obviously, there is a need just to invest, invest quickly into those |
| 1:31.5 | technologies which are already appearing or are in use in Ukraine. |
| 1:35.5 | Estonian MP Marco Mikulsson there. Details on the drone wall are minimal, |
| 1:40.3 | and the tech is relatively new and expensive. David Jordan from the Freeman Air and Space Institute |
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