Notes / Ares
30 April 2020
European Defence Should Not Be the Casualty of the ‘Great Lockdown’
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Felix Arteaga
Senior Analyst, The Elcano Royal Institute
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Daniel Fiott
Security and Defence Editor, EUISS
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Keith Hartley
Emeritus Professor of Economics, The University of York
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Former Deputy Director of IRIS
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Deputy Director
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Alessandro Marrone
Head of Defence Programme, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)
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Margarita Šešelgytė
Director at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University
Europe is currently facing an unprecedented sanitary crisis, which will have gigantic economic consequences and could turn into a severe depression. Whereas the European Union is planning its ‘exit strategy’ and long-term response to the pandemic, the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2021-2027 has been reframed in recent weeks to be the backbone of its recovery plan. Undoubtedly, it will focus on critical sectors such as health or energy. We believe that the defence sector should be included in such critical sectors and that a revised version of the MFF should be the opportunity to reassert a truly ambitious budget for the European Defence Fund.
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