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

Mr. Jannik Knauer:

To add one quick point, it is important – and this is reflected in all the documents we put out – that for those member states that are also NATO allies, NATO remains the cornerstone for anything that pertains to deterrence, collective defence and operational questions. As Ms Dinkova pointed out, and I wish to underline again, the Commission is only looking at the defence industrial dimension. We do not have any say when it comes to actual operational questions or the heart of the defence policy of member states. The European Commission does not enter into those matters.

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