{"id":132757,"date":"2024-08-01T09:10:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T06:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/what-will-the-eus-defence-industry-commissioner-do\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T09:10:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T06:10:55","slug":"what-will-the-eus-defence-industry-commissioner-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/what-will-the-eus-defence-industry-commissioner-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What will the EU\u2019s defence industry commissioner do?"},"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\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\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=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132757\" \/>\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    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Whoever von der Leyen puts in the hot seat must unite and strengthen a highly fragmented industry. Ursula von der Leyen has promised to create a Commissioner for Defence as part of her plans for a second term at the helm of the European Commission. Whoever that is will have a difficult task in uniting an industry whose growth has long been splintered and spluttering.Plans to unify rules on the single market always face a wall of opposition from countries that would lose out \u2013 and still more so in this sensitive, and largely national, sector. But many argue it&#8217;s the only way to build up the EU\u2019s fledgling industry and keep the bloc secure, as Russia becomes more belligerent and US support potentially falters.<\/p>\n<p>Many politicians now admit that Europe, long used to scrimping on its military spend, needs to up its game after the Ukraine war. From 1999 to 2021, combined defence spending in the bloc rose 20%, while Russia\u2019s went up 300%, and China\u2019s 600%, von der Leyen said in a political manifesto released on 18 July. But the EU\u2019s native industry isn\u2019t even strong enough to meet that weak demand: most defence acquisitions by member states are still made from outside Europe. The global market is dominated by US companies. Within Europe, in the lead is the UK\u2019s BAE systems, whose defence revenue is nearly double that of its closest EU rival, Italy\u2019s Leonardo.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves several gaps in the supply chain. In a March article for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, analyst Sophia Besch cites ammunition and surveillance as two areas missing from EU capability. While the EU is normally responsible for unifying national markets, military policy is jealously guarded by capitals. A system of member state vetoes also allows sceptics like Hungary to block Brussels\u2019 defence decisions, including support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>All that puts the EU in a bad place, despite some cooperation and mergers, Dylan Macchiarini Crosson of the Centre for European Policy Studies told Euronews. \u201cThe EU&#8217;s defence industrial base is incredibly fragmented at the moment,\u201d said Crosson, a researcher at the Brussels-based think tank. &#8220;European companies by and large still respond to the needs of one national client &#8211; their Ministry of Defence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His analysis is shared by politicians in Brussels.\u201cThere is not enough funding, not enough coordinated planning and no real single market for defence industries,\u201d said MEP Nathalie Loiseau (France\/Renew Europe). \u201cWe cannot continue with the current state of play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fixing those issues will be the tricky task for von der Leyen\u2019s new lieutenant.One option is to splurge from the EU\u2019s own budget, a pot of around \u20ac170bn per year which von der Leyen has promised to overhaul to provide more focus and impact. In a strategy unveiled in March, the Commission already committed to mobilize defence sector investment worth \u20ac1.5bn over three years \u2013 but the industry found that figure underwhelming. &#8220;The budget increases that we currently see are not to the level that would be needed to ensure that Europe can defend itself,\u201d given the time needed to repair \u201chuge\u201d capability gaps, Burkard Schmitt of ASD Europe told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/08\/01\/what-will-the-eus-defence-industry-commissioner-do\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/08\/01\/what-will-the-eus-defence-industry-commissioner-do\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/european-ngos-call-for-more-debate-on-deep-sea-mining-2\/\">What will the EU\u2019s defence industry commissioner do?<\/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":[11851,15526,274,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-132757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commissioner","tag-defence-industry","tag-eu","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}