Sunday Briefing

EU’s foreign policy says many countries still ‘want to join our club’ France’s Haddad also pushes for “European preference” on defence purchases, arguing it’s just “common sense.” He says when you’re increasing defence budgets – often by cutting other spejnding - you cannot then spend it abroad to “subsidise a factory in Kentucky” in the US. “We know that when you buy a weapon from another area, it comes with strings attached. It comes with [some] fine print on how and when you can use it. So all of this is absolutely critical.” “This is also the best way in the long run to reshape and maybe salvage the transatlantic relationship: to make it more balanced, more mature, with two pillars that are equal rather than looking for love or thinking about how the Americans are going to talk about us.” Continue reading...