Financing European Defence: the End of Budgetary Taboos
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[1] Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
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- Localización: European papers: a journal on law and integration, ISSN-e 2499-8249, Vol. 8, Nº. 3, 2023, págs. 1155-1177
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Since the Treaty of Lisbon, signed in 2007, the common security and defence policy shall include the progressive framing of a common Union defence policy, which may lead to a common defence. However, the key question is the financing of such policy. To address this issue, several taboos have been progressively lifted in terms of financial resources, both out of the EU Budget with new players (notably the European Defence Agency) and new instruments (especially the European Peace Facility) and within the EU Budget, with a multiplication of initiatives to reinforce the European defence industry (from the first dedicated program in 2017 to the new instrument for supporting the production of ammunition in 2023). The Ukrainian war was and is still a decisive factor to contribute to and accelerate that evolution.
