CER Podcast: How is the EU's role in European defence changing?

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🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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As we enter the third year of full-scale war in Ukraine and the possibility of Trump's re-election becomes more likely, Charles Grant, director, and Luigi Scazzieri, senior research fellow, consider how the EU's role in defence is changing. They discuss where the money for a larger defence budget would come from and whether the Commission could play a role in defence planning. Charles concludes the podcast with a quiz on the many acronyms that appeared in the Commission's latest press releases on defence. Music by Edward Hipkins Produced by Octavia Hughes

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0:00.0	From the Center for European Reform, this is the CIA podcast.
0:04.0	Poson us seriously the question of the
0:05.9	future that we want, and we all
0:08.0	all together to the courage to be construing.
0:10.5	For us in Germany, is the
0:11.9	Bekenness to the European Europe,
0:14.0	a part of our state's resolve.
0:15.6	A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world
0:17.8	because an integrated Europe remains vital to our
0:20.1	international order. This is the moment for Europe world because integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.
0:21.3	This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.
0:30.0	Welcome to this Centre for European Reform podcast on European Defence.
0:34.2	I'm Charles Grant, the director of the CER, and I'm joined today by my colleague Luigi Scatsieri,
0:39.3	who is an expert on European defence questions and will be publishing in a couple of days a paper on this subject.
0:44.7	The reason Luigi, when we're talking about this today, is because European defence is very much on the EU's
0:49.0	agenda. Mrs. von der Leyen is trying to make it a priority for her second spell in office, assuming
0:53.8	she serves the
0:54.4	second term. And the background to this, of course, is that because Russia has invaded Ukraine,
0:59.3	Europeans are started to feel insecure, particularly those who live in the eastern half of the
1:02.4	continent. They worry about Europe's ability to stand up to Russian aggression. We have NATO, of course,
1:07.7	but NATO is a little bit under question with the possibility of a return
1:11.1	to office of Donald Trump in the United States. And Trump has been pretty critical of NATO in the
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