National Expectations Regarding the European Defence Fund: The Spanish Perspective

This chapter describes the Spanish political, industrial and military expectations regarding the European Defence Fund (EDF). The description includes the Spanish vision about the future of the European Defence and Technological Industrial Base (EDTIB), the logic of industrial cooperation followed by Spain to integrate its defence industrial sector into the EDTIB and the national preferences for the EDF system of governance and working programs. According to the vision, the EDF funds represent a game changer because they launch a process of rationalization that will help to consolidate, if successful, European champions and European chains of supply. Spain supports an inclusive approach to the EDF management in order to cooperate with third non-EU and NATO partners but with the due restrictions to prevent the transfer of common funding and intellectual property rights outside the EU…