At a negotiation meeting on Thursday 3 May, the Council of the EU and the European Parliament continued to disagree over the matter of funding the European defence industrial development programme (€500 million over the 2019-2020 period). The former preferred redeployment based on existing programmes, while the latter called for the use of unallocated margins.
As talks began, funding of the project was an immediate stumbling block to negotiation (see EUROPE 11982). During this third...