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Russia’s invasion of Ukrainian territory poses a lot of uncomfortable questions for Western policy makers – including how, and how much, to ramp up defence R&D. Hitherto, the European consensus was to keep civilian and military types of research in separate programmes: for Brussels since 2016, that has meant separate funding and management, in the Framework Programme (now called Horizon Europe) and the European Defence Agency. But in the past few years, talk of “synergies” between the two has risen.

A Tetbury man has been hit with a hefty fine after failing to provide information to the police.

A Tetbury man has been hit with a hefty fine after failing to provide information to the police.

The Romanian Corvette Program Saga (Part Two) Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 27 Romania's Damen Galati shipyard (Source: Yellow and Finch Publishers) Post-Communist Romania’s first national warship-building program—a multi-role corvette— resides in legal limbo since being launched in November 2016, with none of the four planned vessels having been laid yet. After an initial attempt by the authorities to directly award the program to the domestic shipyard Damen Galați (owned by the Dutch firm Damen Group), a change in government derailed the whole deal. More than a...