There is and never will be any common strategic planning and common spending without common foreign and fiscal policies. So I assume his country will not loudly cry “but our souvereignity!” when those things are proposed…
“While insisting that member states should remain in the driver’s seat of defense policy, the former Lithuanian prime minister said…”
So that’s a no. Thx, bye.
“In practical terms, Kubilius wants to advance plans for […] a European Security Council […]. Such a body could discuss issues ranging from the European pillar of NATO to defense industrial policy.”
Yeh, no. That idea would not close any gaps but create them by making the EU dependent on single members that can veto everything just by withholding their military assets that are an integral and coordinated part of a common defense architecture.
"In his view, European military doctrines should follow Ukraine’s example by better integrating innovation and smaller players into procurement processes and defense planning.
For now, Kubilius said, “there is not enough space for start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises to grow up.”
At the same time, he added, Europe’s largest economies, including Germany and France, still purchase relatively little defense equipment directly from their European partners.
So this is the actual issue. Got it… Again: Thx, bye. We will no be the piggy bank for your ambitions to build up domestic industry. Countries making decisions based on how much their own industry can benefit instead of military considerations is the actual cause for the insane fragmentation of EU defense planning and spending, not a solution.
Yeah, I don’t see the EU being able to have a unified defense policy until defense and foreign policy is an EU competency. The only reason it didn’t become an issue so far was because NATO was effectively the EU’s defense organization.
There is and never will be any common strategic planning and common spending without common foreign and fiscal policies. So I assume his country will not loudly cry “but our souvereignity!” when those things are proposed…
So that’s a no. Thx, bye.
Yeh, no. That idea would not close any gaps but create them by making the EU dependent on single members that can veto everything just by withholding their military assets that are an integral and coordinated part of a common defense architecture.
So this is the actual issue. Got it… Again: Thx, bye. We will no be the piggy bank for your ambitions to build up domestic industry. Countries making decisions based on how much their own industry can benefit instead of military considerations is the actual cause for the insane fragmentation of EU defense planning and spending, not a solution.
Yeah, I don’t see the EU being able to have a unified defense policy until defense and foreign policy is an EU competency. The only reason it didn’t become an issue so far was because NATO was effectively the EU’s defense organization.