Fuck the Israelis, they don't need any more funding for their invasion.
As for other places, I'm glad they are still letting some money go outside the EU. Hopefully this results in joint development of stuff rather than reliance on those external partners
Wait, the news said last night that the passus about shunning US arms industry was ultimately removed from the EU resolution's last draft. Now here's another article claiming it's in, plus even extended to include Israel? None of the news sources I found actually link to the freakin' EU papers they are all talking about.
The white paper ( https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/... ) only contains "Israel" in one place and it's not about where to spend money.
Can someone guide me to the actual, final, real, true statement the EU made?
Would you mind adding the subtitle of the article to make that clearer even for those who don't click through: "Under the current proposal, the €150 billion loan fund can be used only for procurement within Europe."
(Also, tbh, the authors writing an article about Israel being excluded is kind of a misleading, as Israel is not special here. Ivory Coast and Paraguay are also excluded, seeing as they're not EU members.)
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Thanks - however! I actually thought you could just update the title to this: "EU defense budget plan excludes Israel's arms industry | Under the current proposal, the €150 billion loan fund can be used only for procurement within Europe."
(Of course, ideally people should read the article before commenting. But we all know that's not necessarily the case.)
Turkey was mentioned
Oh, shoot, sorry. Missed that, thanks for the correction.
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Damn thats some really good news for once!
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