🏠Driving Defence: The automotive sector’s role as a potential enabler of Europe’s defence surge
By Paul Taylor – @epc-official.bsky.social
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Europe’s defence build-up may depend not only on higher spending, but also on industrial adaptation. This paper explores how the automotive sector — facing overcapacity, layoffs and technological transition — could help support Europe’s defence surge by providing manufacturing capacity, skilled workers and dual-use innovation. It also examines the major barriers to closer cooperation and sets out policy recommendations to unlock this potential.
