Laying out her vision of the new strategy to members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Von der Leyen said: “At the heart of this must be a simple principle: Europe must spend more, spend better, spend European.”
Von der Leyen said the commission will make proposals for the new defense industry strategy in coming weeks
I’m very curious about the future of European military development.
Until now, a lot of decisions regarding the financing of our armed forces and the development/production of necessary equipment seems to have been held back heavily by the unpopularity of spending money on something not (yet) directly affecting the population, similar to developments regarding climate change.
I do hope that we, as Europe and the countries therein, will swallow that pill to prepare for something that will hopefully never happen rather than start scrambling once it is too late.