The defence ministers from Germany and France both declared that the European Union has absolutely no role to play in weapons export decisions, issuing a clear rebuke to European Commission ambitions to ease trade within the EU weapons market.
Headline and quote don’t focus on the key issue:
The EU executive has proposed allowing countries to skip obtaining approval before reselling key sensitive components used in weapons manufacturing.
The EU wants to loosen arms control and there doesn’t seem to be a replacement for what the states do. At best that’s just recklessness.
Of course states don’t want to lose that control, even if the EU would track components itself. But that should be cause for questioning in general if the EU should continue centralizing power in Brussels.
France. When Macron has been pushing the idea of a stronger common EU defense for years. Sheesh.
“We need change! But please don’t change how we did things for decades!”
This is how the world will end.
Somebody said it’s because Hungary but I don’t buy it.
Unsurprisingly Germany and France are also the largest arms manufacturers in the EU. The article is short but I’d like more background.
Why do they want to veto arms exports to within the EU?
Hungary…
That’s fair, honestly. Fuck Orban and everyone voting for him.
