Just 12 EU countries reported their collaborative equipment procurement data
The EU’s efforts to push member states to coordinate their military purchase are being undermined by a basic problem: no one fully knows how much capitals are spending on joint procurements.
In a late April statement by Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius, the Commission acknowledged that the most recent analysis of EU collaborative procurement (2024–2025) by the European Defence Agency (EDA) found that “only 12 out of 27 Member States reported their EU collaborative equipment procurement data.”
The lack of data makes it impossible “to provide a comprehensive analysis of EU collaborative defence equipment procurement and to adequately assess the state of the EU defence landscape in this area,” Kubilius added.
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