“We are facing a momentous change. And in the face of new, urgent scenarios, we need extraordinary solutions: European Defence is one of them.” This is the starting point for Roberto Cingolani, who emphasises how the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East require a change in pace and approach.

As Cingolani explains, “Making a comparison with the United States, we can see that the Americans invest more in defence, research, and development. But more importantly, they do it better: they concentrate investments on a limited number of platforms, thus achieving better technologies at lower costs”.

In contrast, European states act independently, investing in a non-rationalised manner in different projects. According to Cingolani, “the European Defence space topic has, first and foremost, a technological significance. If we were to create larger structures, joint ventures with a more unified and visionary European policy, we could be more advanced and therefore more secure”.