National Expectations Regarding the European Defence Fund: The Danish Perspective

  • Sten Rynning

    Sten Rynning

    Professor, The University of Southern Denmark

Despite its opt-out on defence matters, Denmark supports the establishment of the European Defence Fund (EDF) and expects Danish businesses to fully take part in it. In accordance with its vision of European security, Denmark does not regard the EDF as a budding European Union (EU) defence planning process but rather as a Defence Internal Market capacity building mechanism and an instrument of industrial development…