LE SYSTEME EUROPEEN D’ACQUISITION D’ARMEMENT. FACTEUR DE SOUTIEN DE LA PESD

Abstract

The European Union needs a solid and effective Security and Defence Policy. The goals of this article are to demonstrate, with recent developments in the matter, major challenges and statistic elements on defence, investment and research budgets: at first, that the process of standardisation and harmonisation at the European level are necessary steps toward the creation of a European system of defence procurement, and secondly, the link between this system and the ESDP.

Keywords

• European Union
• security
• European Security and Defence Policy
• budgets
• European armaments procurement system