EU officials raised its budget from €30.5 million to €31 million on Tuesday, an amount that pales compared to the Pentagon’s budget of more than €540 billion. Domecq said it reflected his agency’s job, which isn’t to supplant national militaries but coordinate the efforts of EU countries to improve security and leverage scarce resources. [...]
Now, with the push to increase military cooperation — a step EU foreign and defense ministers agreed to on Monday — the EDA is expected to gain new relevance. Plans drawn up by Mogherini would give it a central role in boosting the efficiency and the capability of European defense systems.
The tiny budget increase approved on Tuesday is the first for the agency since 2010, though officials acknowledged it was more symbolic than anything.
And there are other efforts underway to potentially ramp up European military spending, including a proposal to establish an EU defense fund, which the Commission aims to outline at the end of this month.
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