Bulwark against Putin? EU is planning new strategies for the arms industry. Among other things, the draft states that the European Union would like to procure half of its defense systems within the EU by 2035.
A minimum floor should ensure that between a third and half of defense spending goes to European defense companies. The EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced plans for a new strategy. The focus must be on the principle: “Europe must spend more, spend better, spend Europeanly”