President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen underlined that the European Union could not wait for months and years to be able to replenish its own military stocks or send munitions such as 155mm artillery shells to Ukraine.
“We could think of, for example, advanced purchase agreements that give the defence industry the possibility to invest in production lines now to be faster and to increase the amount they can deliver,” she said.
She suggested the bloc should do what it did during the pandemic to prepare for the large-scale production of a COVID vaccine.
“I think we have to invest more in defence, without any question,” von der Leyen stressed.
