🇪🇺 Defence financing in the EU: Needs, ambitions and progress
By Philip Lausberg – @epc-official.bsky.social
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The Council's agreement last week on the AGILE mandate – opening trilogue on a €115 million programme designed to get disruptive defence innovations from lab to deployment in weeks rather than years - puts a sharp spotlight on the questions: is Europe actually financing its defence the right way?