Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
2:00 am
Ms Dinka Dinkova:
We acknowledge that, in certain areas, we will continue to rely on our allies and partners. In order to be a credible partner, however, we also need to reinforce our independence. I do not know if my colleague, Mr. Knauer, wishes to come in. We do not wish to be completely self-sufficient, but we need to have a more autonomous European defence industry that is capable of meeting the needs of the member states. That is part of the industrial policy objectives that we are setting at EU level.
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