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Headlines : * Fire under control after seven hours, flights resume at HSIA   * 35 security personnel injured battling fire at HSIA   * July Charter signatories have ‘drifted away from uprising, people’: NCP   * Fakhrul calls for shift from street politics to parliament to strengthen democracy   * National election schedule to be announced in early Dec: CEC   * HSIA blaze contained, flights to resume tonight: Adviser Bashir   * Awareness Meeting on Drug Abuse, Eve-Teasing, and Terrorism Held in Manikganj   * CEPZ factory fire brought under control after 17-hr battle   * BNP Holds Human Chain and Protest Rally in Daulatpur, Manikganj   * Swimming Helps Save Lives and Builds Fitness : Dr. Manowar Hossain Molla  

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EU reaches agreement on plan backing defence industry

 

BSS/AFP) - The European Union on Thursday arrived at an agreement for a programme boosting its defence industry, with an initial 1.5 billion euros ($1.8 billion) to ramp up production and supply chains, the Council of the EU said.

The development -- the fruit of long negotiations -- puts the bloc on track to improve its defence readiness, and also aims to "support defence industrial cooperation with Ukraine", the body, which represents member countries, said in a statement.

The 1.5-billion-euro budget for the European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP), provided as grants, covers the period 2025-2027, according to the agreement struck with the European Parliament.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen welcomed the news as an important step towards the EU being "defence-ready by 2030".

Negotiations on the EDIP had long been dogged by the question of whether or not to give a preference to European-made military equipment, weapons and ammunition.

Some EU countries wanted to use the programme to finance the purchase of materiel from outside the bloc, notably from the United States.

The compromise reached will limit the value of components made outside the EU or its partner countries such as Norway, to 35 percent of the total investment.

"EDIP will reverse the importation practice long observed in Europe, to concretely support a ramping up of our industrial base," said one of the lead MEPs on the issue, Francois-Xavier Bellamy.

Currently, the EU gets more than 60 percent of its military weapons and systems from outside the bloc, mainly from the United States. Brussels wants to reduce that to 45 percent.

Some 300 million euros from the first EDIP budget will go to defence cooperation with Ukraine.

The European Parliament said it has secured funding towards the budget from non-EU countries that also want to participate in the EDIP, such as Britain and Canada.

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