EU’s foreign policy says many countries still ‘want to join our club’
Nato’s deputy secretary general Radmila Šekerinska picks up Haddad’s point.
She says that the last Nato summit in The Hague agreed not just on increased defence spending, but also on ramping up own production.
“This will be repeated in Ankara now: we need to produce more, and we need to produce more everywhere.
We need more European production, we also need more production on the US side.
“Unfortunately, most of our stockpiles are not up to the task. We went to industry, … and the only place where these capabilities were available was in the US stockpiles.
I was in Norway recently, I visited a company that does all of its exports to the US, and then the US has additional production and many of European countries buy it.
“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.”
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