Leaked Report Outlines Major Overhaul of EU Defense Investment Rules
The document written by former Italian PM Mario Draghi sketches out plan to build Europe’s own defense industrial complex.
The document written by former Italian PM Mario Draghi sketches out plan to build Europe’s own defense industrial complex.
The arrested man has ties to organised crime and human trafficking and is considered to be radicalised.
Fund encourages member states to share defence costs amid depleted stockpiles
In exchange, the Zelensky government allegedly committed to not diplomatically recognise Kosovo.
The news is likely to precipitate political controversy in Serbia given that broad swaths of the population strongly support Russia.
Those who have criticized the massive amount of U.S. weapons and ammunition flowing into Ukraine have long drawn attention to the fact that there is no mechanism for tracking the arms once they enter the country.
The U.S. accounted for 39% of all major arms exports from 2017 to 2021, more than twice Russia’s 19% and greater than the 32% U.S. share from 2012 to 2016.
Europol’s chief has said that the massive quantity of weapons supplied to Ukraine by EU countries could end up flowing back into the bloc, warning that such a scenario could precipitate a level of street violence previously only seen in Latin America.
While French President Emmanuel Macron proposed a vision for a more federalized European Union in assuming the presidency of the European Union, his government has also made it clear that does not apply to arms exports.
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