The Council of the European Union adopted assistance measures under the European Peace Facility (EPF) that provide further military assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Airbus has launched two defence research and development projects that it is coordinating as part of the 2021 European Defence Fund (EDF).
"We need to reduce our strategic dependencies in the space sector, protecting supply chains and developing critical space technologies," writes Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
European Union military assistance to Ukraine will be topped up by a further 500 million euros ($543 million) through European Peace Facility.
“Germany is the largest economy in Europe, so it should also be our goal to have the strongest and best-equipped army in the EU," said Germany's defence minister Boris Pistorius.
The European Defence Fund (EDF) has just awarded a new project, 5G COMPAD – 5G Communications for Peacekeeping and Defence, in collaboration with EU-based 5G companies and researchers.
Director-General Timo Pesonen has signed, on behalf of the European Commission, a Copernicus Cooperation Arrangement with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan.
European defence budgets are increasing in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine. But if member-states don’t co-ordinate their spending better, fragmentation will persist and Europe’s defence industry could weaken.
NATO and the EU agreed to create a taskforce on resilience and critical infrastructure protection.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen signed the third Joint Declaration on NATO-European Union cooperation.
Macron aims to make France lead in European initiative so Europe can organise its tools to guarantee its security through a credible European defence, highly interoperable with NATO.
The unprecedented level of NATO-EU cooperation in recent years further accelerated in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine this year.
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