{"id":134332,"date":"2024-10-04T09:20:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T06:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/europe-has-a-real-defense-commissioner-just-not-one-appointed-by-ursula-von-der-leyen\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T09:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T06:20:41","slug":"europe-has-a-real-defense-commissioner-just-not-one-appointed-by-ursula-von-der-leyen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/europe-has-a-real-defense-commissioner-just-not-one-appointed-by-ursula-von-der-leyen\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe has a real defense commissioner \u2014 just not one appointed by Ursula von der Leyen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134332\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe boss of Germany\u2019s largest arms producer is a power player in Europe\u2019s scramble to rearm. Andrius Kubilius is the formal nominee to become the European Union&#8217;s first defense commissioner, but there&#8217;s someone else with a lot more power and money already doing the job \u2014 Armin Papperger, the CEO of German arms-maker Rheinmetall.<\/p>\n<p>While Kubilius cools his heels waiting for the European Parliament to begin hearings on Ursula von der Leyen&#8217;s new Commission, Papperger is already meeting with fellow arms industry titans as well as key national politicians and is driving real policy decisions. The Rheinmetall boss \u201chas very clear ideas on the EU defense future,\u201d said an EU official who recently met him. \u201cHe has views on the countries we should reach deals with and those we should not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The EU is working on defense partnerships with South Korea and Japan, for example, and is also looking at ways to cooperate with the United Kingdom. Such pacts can be crucial for arms firms. Another industry executive, speaking on condition of being granted anonymity, said Papperger has been a key voice in advocating for more defense spending across Europe, and also backs consolidation of the bloc\u2019s traditionally fragmented defense sector.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Papperger has lined up with the likes of Italy\u2019s Leonardo and the U.K.\u2019s BAE Systems on major industrial cooperation deals targeted at producing modern tanks and armored vehicles based on Rheinmetall&#8217;s Lynx platform for the Italian army, while working on Boxer trucks and Challenger 3 tanks for the U.K. Using everything from sport sponsorship deals to robust and very public support for Kyiv, Papperger is pulling the defense industry out of the shadows. In the process, he&#8217;s put himself in the crosshairs of Russian assassins; spy agencies foiled an attempt on his life earlier this year. He&#8217;s also in charge of an arms-making powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Rheinmetall is sitting on a \u20ac48.6 billion order book. In the first half of this year it earned a profit of \u20ac404 million and Papperger said he expects sales to increase by \u20ac2 billion a year. Rheinmetall is estimated to have taken on around 40 percent of a \u20ac100 billion fund to modernize the German army. Listening to him \u201csometimes I was thinking [I was] speaking to the real defense commissioner,\u201d the first official joked.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-real-defense-commissioner-ursula-von-der-leyen-andrius-kubilius-armin-papperger-rheinmetall\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-real-defense-commissioner-ursula-von-der-leyen-andrius-kubilius-armin-papperger-rheinmetall\/\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/europe-has-a-real-defense-commissioner-just-not-one-appointed-by-ursula-von-der-leyen\/\">Europe has a real defense commissioner \u2014 just not one appointed by Ursula von der Leyen<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[16372,274,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-134332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-defense-commissioner","tag-eu","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}