Published November 30,2023
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EU Council President Charles Michel suggested EU member states on Thursday to determine a single marketplace for protection.
“We must work towards a true defense single market,” Michel mentioned in an handle to the annual European Defense Agency (EDA) convention. “I feel that the time has come to create a real union of defense, coupled with a true defense single market.”
He mentioned the market ought to deal with two objectives — the bloc’s “ironclad military support for the people of Ukraine” and making “European defense stronger.”
To obtain a “true defense single market,” he proposed 4 concrete concepts.
“First, we need to make the coordination of our defense spending more effective,” he mentioned, including that the EDA ought to grow to be a strong European protection division.
That must be adopted by adapting the bloc’s regulatory framework “so we can act faster and with more flexibility,” he mentioned.
“Third, we must ramp up financing in our defense industry.”
And lastly, he mentioned, the EU must deal with concrete initiatives which have a structural European impact and supply security for its residents.
“We already have strategies for space and for maritime domains, but we can go further in the air domain,” he mentioned. “For instance, the EU could develop next-generation and fully interoperable capabilities in future combat systems.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr
