Faced with Russia, Europe wants to put its defense industry in battle order. The Commission is proposing to pool military purchases and stocks but still lacks funding.
The war in Ukraine has highlighted the fragilities of European defense. They are the legacy of the “Lazy Thirty’, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Waking up is painful. Overall, the EU armies are not at threat level. “ If we had spent 2% of our GDP over the last fifteen years,” underlines a European official, “that’s 1000 billion…