Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources
3:15 pm
Mr. Günther Oettinger:
It is not my own ambition. It is the expectation of our member states. The defence union is a decision of the Council. Some 25 member states are expecting us to realise added value via European standards, European tenders, European investments coming from the European budget plus additional money coming from member states.