EDA Deputy Chief Executive, Rini Goos, addressed the NATO Parliamentary Assembly during is meeting in Brussels on February 19th. Mr. Goos spoke on the importance of strengthening Europe's defence industrial base and what role the EDA plays.
Addressing over 100 parliamentarians from NATO member countries, Mr. Goos underscored the importance of a strong industrial base as “key for innovation, key for developing and maintaining our defence equipment, it is in short an indispensable enabler to having the right capabilities we need in response to current and future security and defence needs”.
The joint meetings of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Defence and Security Committee, Political Committee, and Economics and Security Committee offered an opportunity for NATO and EU officials to discuss key security issues. Addressing the assembly, Mr. Goos pointed to the current role of the EDA in strengthening capabilities by underpinning the industrial base, “EDA is not only working with its Member States on an Overarching Research Agenda that should provide coherence between capability pull and technology push and identify priority technology building blocks. It also works on the identification of so called Key Strategic Activities which would support European strategic autonomy”.
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