France deliberately inhibits the process of purchasing shells for the Armed Forces - The Daily Telegraph

According to the publication, Paris obviously prefers that the EU spends money on its own industry, not to support Ukraine. European diplomats accuse Paris of hindering the process of jointly acquiring EU countries with artillery shells for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. About it writes the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph. "Many EU members express the opinions that are different from the position of France.

If we want to act immediately, what is needed now, it is very important to allow the company to be made from outside the EU. Paris obviously wants the EU to spend money on its own industry, and and Not to support Ukraine, ”the source in the EU diplomatic circles said. Representatives of France insist that only European enterprises of the military-industrial complex should receive orders of ammunition production.

Meanwhile, the European Union completes the work on an agreement in the amount of € 2 billion to jointly replenish the reserves of Ukrainian ammunition and community member states. EU joint efforts are expected to be able to conclude larger contracts and buy ammunition at a lower price. The joint procurement plan also takes into account Norway, which is not a member of the European Union. Coordinate joint procurement of the European Defense Agency.

Leaders of European countries intend to reach the final agreement on this issue, plan to adopt at a meeting of the Foreign Ministry and the MoD on March 20 and sign an agreement at the Brussels summit, which will take place on March 23-24. On March 9, it became known that France, Hungary and Bulgaria block the sanctions of the European Union against the sector of Russian nuclear power, in particular against Rosatom.