The European Defence Agency Steering Board will hold a meeting in Brussels next Monday 21 November, at which Defence Ministers will decide whether to implement a code of conduct for greater competition in defence procurement.
European Defence Ministers, meeting informally today at RAF Lyneham (U.K.), were given a demonstration of air-tanking capability and launched a new effort to fill the gap in tanking capability which constrains Europe's Rapid Reaction aspirations. — Lyneham, 13 October 2005, PRESS RELEASE
European Union Defence Ministers agreed today that spending on defence-related Research & Technology needs to increase and to be more effective through greater collaboration between EU countries. — Lyneham, 13 October 2005, KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Nick Witney, Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency, said during a visit to Washington that the success of the EDA was as much in U.S. interests as it was in Europe's. In a speech to the Press Club in Washington today, he said a greater European ability to shoulder its share of the burden would put Transatlantic defence relations on a sounder, more equitable basis. And creating a stronger and more integrated European defence technological and industrial base could, one day, do the same for defence trade relations, he added. — Press Club, Washington, 24 October 2005, PRESS RELEASE
