Feb 17, 2003 10:31
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Secondly, you also, very briefly, addressed the area of armaments policy, alluding to the way in which the countries of the European Union spend EUR 150 billion on defence, whereas we are always being told that the excessive duplication resulting from this means that efficiency is minimal.
I feel I'm missing something there. Duplication of what? I guess it refers to a duplication of efforts, ie each country acting separately instead of combining efforts. Right afterwards the speaker talks about the creation of a common defense market, so that would support my thesis. How do you guys read it?
I feel I'm missing something there. Duplication of what? I guess it refers to a duplication of efforts, ie each country acting separately instead of combining efforts. Right afterwards the speaker talks about the creation of a common defense market, so that would support my thesis. How do you guys read it?
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I think you've got it. It refers to the fact that the countries of the EU are pretty small, in world terms, so you have one little country putting money and resources into exactly the same thing as the neighbouring country, when if they acted together they could achieve the same result at lower cost.
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Yes, that´s right
He´s talking about duplication of defence effort.
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Steffen Walter
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excessive duplication of ***defence spending***
i.e. each member state allocates huge amounts to its defence budget instead of establishing a common defence scheme/policy that would bring about huge efficiencies
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Steffen
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duplication of administrative / bureaucratic costs
Probably your text does not imply that there are too many troops or too much weaponry in Europe. It is the cost of administering separate programs that impedes efficiency.
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duplication (of defense industry leading to local subsidies)
No doubt, there is a co-ordination of efforts in things like the Euro-fighter aircraft (think they call it differently in Europe), but basically a lot of the defense industry functions separately.
So does the purchasing trends among the governments. The UK may tend to lean towards the US in some systems, the French had their Mirage jets, the UK their own Hunter jets, and so on.
These big ticket items typically cost a bomb and decades to develop and need a minimum quantity just to break even.
So the governments typically would subsidize their own defense industries and this comes from the defense budget.
So does the purchasing trends among the governments. The UK may tend to lean towards the US in some systems, the French had their Mirage jets, the UK their own Hunter jets, and so on.
These big ticket items typically cost a bomb and decades to develop and need a minimum quantity just to break even.
So the governments typically would subsidize their own defense industries and this comes from the defense budget.
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