{"id":137562,"date":"2025-05-28T03:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/137562\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T03:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T03:09:09","slug":"what-europe-can-gain-from-ukrainian-arms-exports-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/137562\/","title":{"rendered":"What Europe can gain from Ukrainian arms exports \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

But beyond this, the question of Ukrainian arms exports is also about supporting Europe\u2019s new defense ecosystem.<\/p>\n

European armies would greatly benefit from access to Ukrainian domestic arms production, allowing them to train soldiers in drone warfare and integrate drone units in command structures, thereby adapting to the realities of modern warfare at low cost.<\/p>\n

For Europe, setting up its own drone industries from scratch would take years, whereas partnering with Ukraine offers a readily available solution to fill capability gaps.<\/p>\n

For Ukraine, on the other hand, over 40 percent of weapons currently used by its army<\/a> are domestically produced, with a heavy focus on innovative weapons systems. But the industry needs to scale up its production of strategic weapons, particularly cruise and ballistic missiles and strategic air defense \u2014 which is where cooperation with European partners and investment is most needed.<\/p>\n

\"\"With any ceasefire looking unlikely, there\u2019s a continued need to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s armed forces and defense capabilities, while simultaneously building on the country\u2019s experience for European rearmament. | Maksym Kishka\/EFE via EPA<\/p>\n

The good news is that the EU\u2019s recent establishment of a \u20ac150 billion defense fund<\/a> under the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative enables Ukraine\u2019s participation in joint defense procurement and borrowing in partnership with EU members. And crucially, these funds can only be spent on defense products where at least 65 percent of components are produced by an EU country, Norway or Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Along these lines, Kyiv has already successfully established joint ventures with European defense partners, like Rheinmetall or Thales. If it can now open its defense exports, it can benefit from the nascent EU scheme even more.<\/p>\n

With any ceasefire looking unlikely, there\u2019s a continued need to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s armed forces and defense capabilities, while simultaneously building on the country\u2019s experience for European rearmament.<\/p>\n

Opening up Ukraine\u2019s defense industry would permit further bureaucratic integration and cooperation with the EU, and allow Ukraine\u2019s economy to benefit directly from European rearmament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But beyond this, the question of Ukrainian arms exports is also about supporting Europe\u2019s new defense ecosystem. European…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[6215,473,2595,2000,6562,299,5187,7058,1214,2597,2598,7061,657,335,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-137562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-cooperation","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-drones","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-eu27","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-defense","16":"tag-exports","17":"tag-military","18":"tag-missiles","19":"tag-procurement","20":"tag-ukraine","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine","22":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114583264659835886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}