Twenty-eight companies, including Italian, Spanish, Swedish, German and other European companies, “members of Europe’s aerospace and defence ecosystem”, including Airbus, Fincantieri, Rheinmetall and Saab - but not Dassault or Thalès - set out their views on the European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP) regulation in a joint letter sent to EU Member States on Tuesday 24 September.
While recognising that many EU defence products with non-EU content could benefit from EDIP, these...