Can American Abandonment Help Europe?
The Continent Has a Chance to Address Its Own Weaknesses – Our piece in Foreign Affairs...
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The US defence industrial base can no longer reliably supply Europe
Europe has long relied on US weapons but the US military industrial base faces constraints and its production may be redirected elsewhere. Our piece for Bruegel....
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Deutschland braucht mehr finanzielle Ressourcen für die Verteidigung – noch vor der Wahl
Artikel in der FAZ, in dem wir argumentieren, dass eine Reform der Schuldenbremse für die Verteidigung sinnvoll und richtig ist....
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A European defence industrial strategy in a hostile world
Bruegel Policy Brief (here) Executive summary Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has brought war back to Europe. Failing to stop Russia’s aggression would leave Europe at a critical disadvantage for decades, with a lon...
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Europe stands increasingly alone on defence production and needs to act
Oped published on Bruegel, Welt, Le Monde, Rzeczpospolita and others. Europe must rebuild its defence industry; reliance on the US is no longer tenable, whatever the outcome of the US presidential election Europeans migh...
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Less complacency, more investment: a European defence procurement strategy would be cheaper
Oped published in Handelsblatt, Corriere della Serra, Helsingin, Bruegel and others. Two and a half years into Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the question of armaments and the speed of military procurement a...
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Fit for war in decades: sluggish German rearmament versus surging Russian defence production
This article was first published for German newspaper FAZ (pdf). The English version was put out by Bruegel. Russia’s war against Ukraine is one of attrition (Vershinin, 2024), notwithstanding the daring Ukrainian operat...
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Fit for war in decades: Europe’s and Germany’s slow rearmament vis-a-vis Russia
War is back in Europe and as it becomes long-lasting, the question of armament gains central im-portance. This report finds that Russian military industrial capacities have been rising strongly in the last two years, wel...
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Memo to the commissioner responsible for defence
You face the major challenges of Russian imperialism in the context of a potential United States retreat from Europe and a complex EU defence situation in which defence governance is spread across EU countries and variou...
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What role do imports play in European defence?
The European Union wants to reduce reliance on imported defence equipment, but the reliance seems to be overstated. Our analysis for Bruegel The European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), published in March 2024, propo...
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