800 billion to defend Europe
At the highest level of the EU, an 800 billion euro project has just been proposed to “rearm Europe”, but much of this money is likely to end up in American pockets, according to Jenny Raflik-Grenouilleau. "If Europeans want to buy weapons quickly, they're going to have to turn to those who can sell them quickly,” she warns. And I'm afraid that European sovereignty won't be strengthened at all.”
Jenny RAFLIK-GRENOUILLEAU
University Professor
University of Nantes
Professor of the History of Contemporary International Relations at Nantes University Jenny Raflik-Grenouilleau is a specialist in security and defense issues. Her publications include Une République moderne: La IVè République, 1946-1958 (Le Seuil, 2018), Terrorisme et mondialisation, approches historiques (Gallimard, 2016), La Quatrième République et l'Alliance atlantique (PUR, 2013).
European NATO members have become even more dependent on U.S. weapons than before, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released Monday.
European arms imports shot up by 155 percent over 2020-2024 compared with 2015-2019 — a reaction to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago.
While the U.S. supplied 52 percent of European NATO members' military equipment between 2015 and 2019, the share rose to 64 percent in the subsequent five-year period.
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