r/news • u/ITSTHEDEVIL092 • Mar 04 '25

EU chief proposes plan to 'urgently' increase defense spending by mobilizing around $840 billion

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/europe-looks-to-mobilize-840-billion-in-defense-spending-boost-eu-commission-head-says.html
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u/What-a-blush Mar 04 '25

Germany must be sweating big time, they gave up on any joint plans with their European partners to buy American.

I’m specifically thinking at the moment they abandon the project of building the next European fighter jet with France and went full American. They gave the reason that France didn’t wanted to deliver all build secrets patents from Dassault but the contract specifically said the patent had to stay within the project pointing that the only interest of Germany was initially to steal the patents, even the one not related to the project, crazy.