#Defence: AE chun tacú le forbairt trealamh míleata

Ní smaoineamh nua é comhtháthú cosanta níos doimhne. Bhí an Comhphobal Eorpach um Chosaint ar cheann de na chéad iarrachtaí agus ba uaillmhianaí chun arm Eorpach comhpháirteach a chruthú go luath sna 1950idí, ach d’fhuaraigh a chliseadh uaillmhianta do chomhchosaint na hEorpa le beagnach leathchéad bliain.

Over the past two decades, the move toward cooperation has intensified and Pesco an tionscnamh is déanaí chun cumais mhíleata Eorpacha a fhorbairt i gcomhpháirt. Chomh maith leis sin, don chéad uair, d’fhéadfadh an AE tionscadail chomhoibríocha i dteicneolaíocht chosanta, mar fhorbairt drones faireachais mhuirí, a chómhaoiniú go díreach ag an AE.

On 21 February Parliament's industry committee approved a proposal a Clár forbartha tionscail cosanta na hEorpa, under which €500 million would be allocated from the EU budget for 2019-2020 to co-finance the joint development of new defence technologies and support joint equipment purchases. This amount is later expected to be increased to €1 billion a year. A similar programme to offer grants for joint military research, for instance in cyber defence and robotics, should be proposed by the European Commission this year, with an annual budget of €500m after 2020, while a €90m research clár tástála do 2017-2019 tosaithe cheana féin.

MEPs stress that the development of defence products should be carried out by at least three companies established in at least three EU countries in order to be eligible for funding by the programme, while certain defence products, such as weapons of mass destruction and fully autonomous weapons, should be excluded from funding.

I Rún Nollaig 2017 maidir le comhbheartas slándála agus cosanta, chuir na Feisirí fáilte roimh na hiarrachtaí seo chun caiteachas cosanta a chomhordú ar bhealach níos fearr agus chun dúbailt agus dramhaíl a laghdú, ag meabhrú dóibh, “i gcomparáid leis na SA go gcaitheann an AE-28 40% ar chosaint ach ní éiríonn leo ach 15% de na cumais a ghiniúint. go n-éiríonn na SA amach as an bpróiseas, rud a léiríonn fadhb éifeachtúlachta an-tromchúiseach”. Seiceáil ár n-ghrafaic faisnéise chun tuilleadh a fháil amach faoi na buntáistí a bhaineann le comhar cosanta níos dlúithe ar leibhéal an AE.

“We have to better cooperate on innovative projects and better protect our know-how and technology,” said French EPP member Françoise Grossetête, who is in charge of steering the proposals through Parliament, during a discussion with experts ar 22 Eanáir.

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