On the second day of the plenary session in Strasbourg, on Tuesday 3 August, the MEPs definitively adopted (478 votes to 179 and 23 abstentions) the inter-institutional agreement on the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP).
“It is an important step for Defence Europe that we will take by adopting this regulation tomorrow”, said Françoise Grossetête (EPP, France), rapporteur on this legislative text. During the debate the day before, she stressed that this was the...