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Defence giants call for European drone program
Three top European defence firms called Sunday on governments to launch a program to manufacture drones that European countries are currently having to buy from Israel or the United States. France’s Dassault Aviation, European aerospace giant EADS and Italy’s Finmeccanica argued such a joint program would “support the capability needs of European armed forces while [...]
India probing presence of Swedish arms in Myanmar
India is investigating how Swedish-made weapons bought by its army turned up in Myanmar, a minister visiting Yangon said Saturday, denying New Delhi had supplied arms in contravention of EU sanctions. Sweden asked India on Thursday to clarify how the weapons wound up in Myanmar after it was revealed the Indian army had purchased them, [...]
Turkey to ask for NATO support on border with Syria
NATO said Monday it would urgently consider a request from Ankara to deploy Patriot missiles along Turkey’s troubled border with Syria as the EU announced its recognition of the new Syrian opposition coalition. NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the 28-member alliance, which includes Turkey, had received no formal request from Ankara for the surface-to-air [...]
EU Requests to Impose Countermeasures Against the US
The European Union today asked the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body to allow the imposition of countermeasures against the United States in the “Boeing case”. This follows the EU’s assessment that the United States had not lived up to its obligation to remove its illegal subsidies in the aircraft sector, as required by [...]
EU should step up joint defence drive, France says
The European Union should step up its drive to forge a joint defence policy for the 27-nation bloc, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Monday. Speaking alongside his Polish opposite number Tomasz Siemoniak, Le Drian said a coordinated EU policy was “essential and unavoidable”, and driven by budgetary concerns and a need to [...]
South Korea mulls offer of Iranian oil tankers
Seoul is considering an offer by Tehran to send crude on Iranian tankers to South Korea, officials said Friday, as a way to circumvent EU sanctions and resume imports of oil from Iran. South Korea has been hit hard by the EU measures against Iran, imposed in the form of a ban on the provision [...]
Change Defense Procurement Rules, EU Tells Slovenia
The European Commission has requested Slovenia to notify within the next two months the measures it is taking to implement EU rules for defence procurement (Directive 2009/81/EC). The Commission is concerned that Slovenia has failed to fulfill its commitments under the Directive regarding procurement of arms, munitions and war material (and related works and services) [...]
National Sovereignty: NATO and the EU’s Fatal Weakness
Today, it is no exaggeration to say that the fate of two of Europe’s — really the world’s — greatest collective organizations of nations hang by a proverbial thread. Having successfully ended the Gaddafi regime in Libya, but at the price of revealing to the world its fundamental weaknesses in will, wallet and the means [...]
Aviation industry warns of trade war over EU carbon tax
World aviation bosses warned on Monday of a potential trade war over a carbon tax imposed by the European Union, which expressed readiness to compromise while insisting on its environmental agenda. In a conference on the eve of the Singapore Airshow, one of Asia’s largest aviation trade fairs, representatives of the airline and plane manufacturing [...]
