Notes / ARES Group - The Armament Industry European Research Group
1 February 2022
The 2022 Defence Package: A Useful Contribution to Support the European Defence Fund?
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Former Senior Research Fellow, 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…