Brussels Proposes Buying Weapons for EU Member States – Guido Fawkes

Brussels Proposes Buying Weapons for EU Member States

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The EU has proposed buying weapons collectively on behalf of nation states in the face of fast-moving developments in Ukraine. Will probably work as well as it did with the vaccine…

A draft European Commission policy paper says it could “act as a central purchasing body” and that “demand aggregation through collaborative procurement is the most cost-effective route to rebuild European defence.” Things will come to a formal head on 20 March at the EU summit. Another step on the path to an actual EU army…

Ursula von der Leyen has already prepared loosened deficit rules for member state defence spending. Other proposals mooted in private by some European officials to get the UK more involved was for a more comprehensive defence agreement completely outside the auspices of the EU to be agreed with London for faster results. Such lean dealmaking methods are commonplace when you’re not interacting with a struggling superbloc…