Notes / Ares Group - The Armament Industry European Research Group
6 octobre 2023
What Future European Defence and Technological Industrial Basis (EDTIB) Do We Want/Need? The German Case
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Leonard Schütte
Senior Researcher, The Munich Security Conference
Russia’s war against Ukraine has upended Germany’s core foreign and defence policy beliefs. This paper analyses the war’s impact on Germany’s European defence industrial policy. To do so, it zooms in on Berlin’s spending and procurement choices since February 2022, national defence industrial strategy, and position on recent initiatives by the EU. Germany’s response to the war has hitherto largely been dominated by short-term concerns to fill glaring capability gaps at the expense of longer-term considerations for the future of the European Defence and Technological Industrial Base…
