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The eurodrone, let's go

We sign below or above, big questioning of the 3 signatories ;-) (© NGV / B2)
Le Drian, Von der Leyen, Pinotti: "Do we sign below or above?", big question from the 3 signatories 😉 (© NGV / B2)

(BRUSSELS2) The Ministers of Defense — French, German and Italian — signed this Monday (18 May) at noon in Brussels the letter of intent for the development of a European MALE (medium altitude long endurance) drone.

A critical ability

« Committing together to this Eurodrone project (*) is considerable underlined the Frenchman Jean-Yves Le Drian. "It's a critical capability that we need to have, that we need to master. he underlined, acknowledging that he borrowed the term Eurodrone from his German colleague von der Leyen. “Ursula owns the copyright,” he joked. This topo was taken up and embellished in other languages ​​by his European colleagues. It is " state-of-the-art technology ", a real " missing capacity stressed German Minister Ursula von der Leyen (Germany). " A critical capability today but also a capability for the future added Roberta Pinotti (Italy).

A trio open to other Poland or Spain?

This approach is “open”, stressed the French minister. " This trio, after the definition period, is undoubtedly destined to expand (...) Others will be able to join us tomorrow. Two countries are particularly "in the loop". " Spain and Poland have already expressed interest. he added

(NGV)

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Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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