26/02/2025 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday 25 February, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, called for the creation of a European instrument dedicated to funding European defence projects. “We should enable more targeted and effective defence spending through a designated European instrument”, she told a group of journalists. According to Ms von der Leyen, quoted by Politico, the focus will be on capability areas of strategic European interest, “such as...