The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced, on Wednesday 28 February, that one of the aims of the European Industrial Defence Strategy and the European Defence Investment Programme, which the European Commission is due to present on 5 March, will be to encourage defence joint procurement.
“That means turbocharging our defence industrial capacity in the next 5 years. At the heart of this must be a simple principle: Europe must spend more, spend better,...