The EU and Nato are at odds in what officials describe as a “turf war” over how to manage an extra $1tn a year rearmament drive prompted by Donald Trump’s threats to European security.
The US-led military alliance, which has underpinned Europe’s security since the second world war, has long opposed Brussels taking on defence powers. But the US president’s demands on allies to invest more in their own militaries have forced an overhaul of arms production policy — an area where the EU has greater expertise than Nato.
“There’s a turf war over defence industrial policy,” said one of the officials. “This is about who manages the production scale-up, and what impact that has on the weapons Europe will be using in the future.”
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