The European Defence Agency (EDA) presented its analysis of the EU’s defence investment shortfalls on Tuesday 17 May.
“Every year between 2009 and 2018, if we had spent the same amount as we did in 2009, we would have spent 160 billion more”, explained the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, after the Defence Council. This period was, he said, “a significant and silent process of disarmament”.
In 2009, according to the World...