Because of the Ukraine war: Europe is facing a “paradigm shift towards a war economy”. “Europe must take more money into its hands and spend it better, spend it in a European way,” said Ursula von der Leyen in a speech on defense policy to the EU Parliament.
An important element is to create a European mechanism modeled on the US Foreign Military Sales Scheme (FMS) to make arms sales easier and smoother to process. The EU would create a catalog of weapons and weapon systems that can be delivered quickly in the member states.