The European Commission announced, in a press release issued after the weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners on Wednesday 30 November, a proposal following on from Jean-Claude Juncker’s suggestion of setting up a European defence fund. This initiative, first raised in the State of the Union speech in Strasbourg on 14 September, becomes then the centrepiece of the defence action plan that has been more than a year in the making.
The communication sets out an architecture...