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PARIS (Reuters) -President Emmanuel Macron said he made some progress on Monday in convincing some of France's EU allies to look at a more home-grown defence strategy, in contrast to a German-led effort to jointly procure air defence systems from outside Europe.
By John Irish and Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) -President Emmanuel Macron said he made some progress on Monday in convincing some of France's EU allies to ...
(Bloomberg) -- French President Emmanuel Macron called for Europe to come up with a strategy on air defense before looking at purchasing equipment, in a veiled jab at Germany’s plan to buy an anti-missile system possibly with the help of Israeli and US companies.Most Read from BloombergHedging Failure Exposes Private Equity to Interest-Rate SurgeThese Are World’s Most Expensive Cities for High-Class LivingForty Hours of Oxygen Left for Titanic Vessel That’s MissingAlibaba Names Tsai Chairman, Wu
Since then some 17 countries, including the Baltic states, Britain and several eastern European powers, which have traditionally turned to the United States for military hardware, have signed up to the so-called European Sky Shield initiative. But on Monday, Macron said that France, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia and Hungary had signed a letter of intent for the joint purchase of the French Mistral air defence systems, built by missile producer MBDA, confirming an earlier story by Reuters.
Anti-air systems will likely have a starring role at the Paris Air Show starting on Monday, predicts Richard Aboulafia, managing director of AeroDynamic Advisory.