New strategy is the bloc’s response to the war in Ukraine and the need to restart arms and ammunition production.

#BRUSSELS — The #EU wants to shift its defense #industry onto a #war footing, laying out its plan in a 27-page draft of a European Defence Industry #Strategy seen by POLITICO.

The EU aims to upend the way that it finances and sells arms, spurred by Vladimir Putin's ongoing war on #Ukraine and warnings from Western countries that a belligerent #Russia could attack a #NATO member in the coming years.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-plan-war-ready-complex-european-defence-industrial-strategy/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

EU plans to create defense-industrial complex ready for war

^{Jacopo Barigazzi (POLITICO)}