{"id":1390,"date":"2026-06-10T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/1390\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:34:14","slug":"eu-eyes-developing-new-joint-military-capabilities-to-curb-reliance-on-us-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/1390\/","title":{"rendered":"EU eyes developing new joint military capabilities to curb reliance on US \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, the initiative is likely to run into obstacles, including capitals being cautious about giving Brussels a say over procurement, U.S. resistance to losing key arms sales in Europe, and the need to develop and build equipment at speed to deter Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The European Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank, last week said the Commission must launch a short-term procurement drive focused on delivering these capabilities immediately where possible, paired with a medium-term industrial strategy to develop more complex technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf development does not start now, Europe will still be dependent on American systems in the mid-2030s,\u201d it <a href=\"https:\/\/ecfr.eu\/publication\/making-defence-european-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stated in a report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Developing joint capabilities will also come at a steep cost \u2014 a challenge for many European countries struggling with high debt and the impact of the energy crisis linked to the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The Kiel Institute, a think tank, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kielinstitut.de\/publications\/news\/european-defense-autonomy-is-technologically-feasible-fiscally-viable-and-politically-achievable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">last month estimated<\/a> that replacing U.S. command and control systems, satellite reconnaissance, communications and navigation assets, space launch infrastructure, aerial reconnaissance like early warning radars, military cloud software and AI, electronic warfare systems and strategic airlift capabilities would cost Europe a minimum of \u20ac200 billion and take a decade or more.<\/p>\n<p>Other experts argue the overall cost of substituting U.S. non-nuclear military capabilities on the continent would be about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iiss.org\/research-paper\/2025\/05\/defending-europe-without--the-united-states-costs-and-consequences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$1 trillion<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, the initiative is likely to run into obstacles, including capitals being cautious about giving Brussels a say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1087,1088,60,57,1089,898,1090,66,7,463,1091,1092,49],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-andrius-kubilius","tag-cyprus","tag-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-energy-crisis","tag-eu-us-military-ties","tag-industrial-strategy","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-procurement","tag-satellites","tag-space","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}