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Just possibly, EU defence ministers may have realised that only their personal engagement will ensure co-operation between their military staff. Can this really be true?...

This is the moment for defence ministers to embrace wholesale co-operation. In the galloping anapaests of a Robert Browning poem, messengers rode through the night to bring...

The EU must strive to make European defence more than just an aspiration. It is ten years since the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) was launched, at an...

If the French can turn their attention from what Britain can bring to the party, they may yet be able to lay claim to re-launching Europe's defence policy. As the French...

Alexander Weis, the new head of the European Defence Agency (EDA), always wanted to do international work. That is how he explains his decision to work for the German defence...

Alexander Weis, the European Defence Agency's incoming chief executive, will be hoping to ensure that member states get more value for money. Andrew Beatty reports. When...

The European Defence Agency (EDA) hosted a discussion in Brussels last week about what they snappily term the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base.Its concern...

EU leaders agreed in Thessaloniki, two and a half years ago, to establish the European Defence Agency (EDA), in an attempt to improve the EU's defence capabilities....

The European Commission announced last week (12 October) funding for 15 research projects aimed at combating terrorism. Around €15 millon are to be allocated to the...

The game of political patronage as it is played in Brussels does not require that there is a job vacancy before campaigns begin for the spoils.

Difficulties in recruiting to the EU's armed forces could be so bad in 20 years' time that they increase defence costs and undermine security, according to a warning issued...

Member states have advertised contracts to supply defence equipment worth more than €600 million less than a month after the European Defence Agency (EDA) opened the...

Europe is to experience a "quiet revolution" in its €30 billion defence equipment market from the start of July, according to the head of the European Defence Agency...

EU countries collectively spend almost €180 billion per year on defence; more than half the US total of €330bn, and have many more men under arms. Yet it became...

THE European Defence Agency has four new directors. Major-General Pierre Hougardy (Belgium), Bertrand de Cordoue (France), Brigadier-General Carlo Magrassi (Italy) and Ulf...

THE European Defence Agency approved last week by the EU's foreign ministers should be ready to embark on its first procurement projects next year, the head of the...

THE launch of the EU's first agency dedicated to boosting armaments cooperation risks being delayed by a row between the three largest member states over how much flexibility...