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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13621
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Economy/defence

EU countries explore new ways to finance defence sector

Meeting on Saturday 12 April at the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw for a second day of informal discussions (see EUROPE B13620A2), European finance ministers explored several avenues for joint financing of defence equipment purchases.

Discussions were fuelled by the presentation of a study by the independent Brussels think tank Bruegel, which recommends establishing a European Defence Mechanism (EDM) (see EUROPE B1361623).

“Most of the ministers were interested in the Bruegel paper”,...

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