Brussels sets up defense & space branch as EU wants ‘to complement NATO’
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The European Union will create a new defense and space arm to help fund, develop and deploy armed forces, the bloc’s incoming chief executive said on Tuesday.
The creation of a defense branch in the European Commission, long resisted by Britain, is an attempt by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to stem a decline in EU influence, as it faces heavy US pressure to do more for its own security, Reuters said.
“The EU will never be a military alliance,” von der Leyen pledged. “But the EU member states have been told many times… that common procurement for their armed forces is of utmost importance.”
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According to Von der Leyen, a former German defense minister, the plans would benefit the US-led NATO alliance to which many EU states belong. “NATO will always be [our] collective defense,” she promised.