Exploring defence innovation and financing: Jan Pie on EU Defence Declassified

ASD Secretary General, Jan Pie appeared this week on the European Defence Agency’s podcast, EU Defence Declassified. The podcast episode, "Defence beyond 2040 – Innovation and Financing” explored innovation dynamics, financing sustainability, and industry strength, as well as political support for innovation in the sector, and improving industry–government partnerships. 

The episode opened with this quotation from Jan Pie: “We are living through an era right now where defence is being discriminated against in Europe. This is really a European phenomenon; it doesn’t happen in the US, it doesn't happen in any other region in the world that I’m aware about. But in Europe, we tend to have many players these days saying, ‘You should not invest in defence.’”