The 2022 Defence Package: A Useful Contribution to Support the European Defence Fund?

  • Edouard Simon

    Edouard Simon

    Ancien.ne chercheur.se à l'IRIS

The European Defence Fund is a breakthrough in EU support to defence R&D and is expected to result in capabilities bought by Member States. However, its financial support (and its incentive effect) does not go beyond the prototype phase. The 2022 defence package could usefully focus on the later phases of capability development: industrialisation and acquisition…