{"id":418667,"date":"2025-02-13T12:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T11:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/02\/13\/asd-europe-contratti-difesa-paesi-terzi\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T13:45:08","slug":"eu-defense-industry-procurement-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/02\/13\/eu-defense-industry-procurement-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"“Many European procurement contracts given to third-country suppliers”, the European defense industry warned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Think ‘European’ now more than ever when considering\u00a0security and defense.\u00a0The European Union must know how to stay true to its ambitions and agendas. Just ahead\u00a0of the international\u00a0Munich Security Conference<\/a>,\u00a0the defense industry wants to show\u00a0European\u00a0states how to provide for European security. ASD Europe<\/strong>, the association\u00a0of European manufacturers, stresses the need to change a logic that is not good for European security. “Many European procurement contracts are given to third-country suppliers<\/b>,” the association stresses. “This trend must be reversed<\/b>“<\/strong><\/p>\n

The e<\/span>xternal relations of the EU and its member states risk hindering defense industry growth. In response to the tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump, the idea of buying more from\u00a0America, specifically\u00a0in defense, begins to take shape in EU institutions as a way to overcome trade barriers and restore peaceful relations\u00a0with the trans-Atlantic partner<\/a>. However, it would\u00a0contradict the Draghi report and the European agenda to\u00a0revitalize a strategic security sector.<\/p>\n

“We must spend more and more European<\/b>,” ASD Europe reiterates after already sounding the alarm in recent months <\/a>on the economic dependence on non-EU players in the defense industry: “A strong European defence industrial base is essential to European defence preparedness, it is a defence capability in itself.<\/b>” Staying within the ‘Made in the EU’ framework is, the way forward, not to abandon. “European preference is a strategic imperative,” and if the EU wants to play a significant role on the international stage, “Europe must bolster its own production capacity” rather than rely on external sources.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hence, the European defense industry makes valuable suggestions to policymakers. The critical issue is always ensuring that “European defence solutions should be given priority, wherever possible. <\/b>” <\/span><\/span>If<\/span><\/span>\u00a0no European solution exists, the focus should be on developing one. Finally,\u00a0non-European procurements must never hinder EU development,\u00a0if there truly is no viable EU solution.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to ASD Europe, there is the need to spend more European. Unfortunately within the EU institutions there are those who don’t want to do so in order to avoid US tariffs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":245924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707,30809],"tags":[27336,27676,29117,28445,26413,25744,30450,25745,30449],"class_list":["post-418667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","category-defence-security","tag-on","tag-asd-europe-en","tag-report-draghi-en","tag-ue-stati-uniti-en","tag-industry-en","tag-procurement","tag-safety-en","tag-conference-on-security-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418667"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418685,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418667\/revisions\/418685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}