France Tries to Lock Britain Out of EU Defence
France Tries to Lock Britain Out of EU Defence, Locks Everyone Else In Instead Paris spent the best part of a year engineering a defence procurement fund specifically designed to keep British arms firms out of the trough. This week the European Commission confirmed France will receive €15.1 billion of the €16.2 billion it demanded from the SAFE fund — a €1.1 billion shortfall French officials are describing, in the…