28/07/2005 (Agence Europe) - In a press release dated 28 July, the chairman of the European Parliament's sub-committee on defence, German Christian Democrat Karl von Wogau, speaks of the need to build a true European defence market in order to strengthen the effectiveness of Member States' defence spending and consolidate the industrial and technological base of Europe in this sector. The MEP recalls that the EU Member States annually spend EUR 160 billion on defence but that such spending...