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There is no written record of how contact with the firm began, how RKIK first found it, or why it was judged fit to supply artillery shells.
In 2024 RKIK signed four deals with Datasel S.R.L., an Italian-registered company acquired on March 6 that year by Neco Defence Munitions.
Ankara's push for a security foothold in the Gulf comes as Greece and Cyprus keep it out of the European Union's rearmament programme.
This aligns with broader EU deliberations, led in part by Italy and France, on post-UNIFIL arrangements to prevent a security vacuum along the Blue Line with Israel.
Turkish President argued that when allies outside the EU, such as Turkey, are not fully involved in the bloc's defence plans, those plans end up sharply limited.
"With a sense of realism, the Netherlands is committed to reducing our critical unilateral dependencies".
Estonia’s Metrosert, Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre, Norway’s SINTEF, Sweden’s RISE, and the Danish Technological Institute.
For years, European Union federalists have hoped that one particular project would take flight: A Franco-German jet fighter.
Lieutenant General Christian Freuding stated that Moscow was rebuilding its forces faster than the war in Ukraine alone required.
The companies said prolonged uncertainty threatened not only their own expertise and resources but also the stability of their partners and supply chains.
Italian forces would grow in stages between 2030 and 2033, the reports said, filling personnel gaps that have opened up over recent years.
National law could still allow exceptions to automatic approval where there was a serious risk to human health or national security.
The contracts followed the government signing an agreement for Poland to borrow €43.7 billion from the €150 billion SAFE programme.
When President Donald Trump returned to power, the overwhelming reaction from European leadership was that they would need to grit their teeth for four years.
On paper, NATO’s eastern flank, stretching from Norway and Finland in the Arctic to Romania and Bulgaria on the Black Sea, forms a coherent geopolitical frontline…
The NATO chief framed the changes as part of a wider rebalancing of responsibilities inside the alliance.
"All of this comes at a cost, but deterring aggression is cheaper than waging a war".
The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, has warned that Europe’s defence industry is not increasing production…
"At this moment, political jealousy and narrow party interests have taken precedence over responsibility".
The plan was outlined by Kaja Kallas, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, ahead of a meeting of EU foreign and defence ministers in Brussels.
"I have resigned because our armed forces and the country's defence capabilities are more important than the post of any minister and the interests of any party.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier has expressed his confidence that the United States will maintain its troop presence on German soil.
After years of neglect and dithering, defence is now firmly established at the top of the European policy agenda.
A major Central European defence contractor at the heart of the European Union’s emergency push to arm Ukraine is facing explosive allegations that it has built…
The European Union has held talks with Britain about London joining its €90 billion loan to Ukraine, a move officials said would deepen defence industrial ties…
NATO has held a series of closed-door meetings with screenwriters, directors and producers from the film and television industries in Europe and the United States.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has reacted to the US decision to withdraw at least 5,000 troops from Germany by warning that “the greatest threat is the ongoing…
Nuclear weapons are treated by the governments that have them as a useful tool. Obtaining a nuclear weapon enters you into a rare club where you are Taken Seriously.
Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin has said Europe cannot rule out the prospect of war with Russia.
Another round of couples counseling last week failed to resolve the grinding Franco-Teuton dispute over the beleaguered Future Combat Air System (FCAS).
