In the evening of Tuesday 22 May, the Council and European Parliament reached provisional political agreement on the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) for 2019-2020, its financing and the managing of companies taking part in financed activities.
Among the issues that came in for bitter debate in the last trialogue negotiating meeting were the details of €500 million worth of financing for the programme: 60% of which will be fuelled by redeploying existing programmes...