On Tuesday 10 June, Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius announced that the Commission would adopt “an ambitious defence simplification ‘omnibus’ project” on 17 June.
“Without this simplification, nothing else in defence readiness will be possible to achieve. Defence readiness will not be ramped up by the picture of aggregated demand or by all the efforts to ramp up financial resources, if traditional ‘red tape’, which maybe is fit for peacetime, will kill industrial...