UK exclusion from EU defense loan ‘self-defeating’

(Esther Webber – Politico) British Defence Minister Al Carns described the failure to agree U.K. entry into the EU’s SAFE program as “self-defeating” for European security. Speaking at a Chatham House event, Carns said the U.K. `is “absolutely essential to European security … so to not allow it into a European defense fund is actually self-defeating if we’re talking about a threat potentially materializing.”. Talks between Brussels and London on the bloc’s €150 billion Security Action for Europe loans-for-weapons plan collapsed in November after the two sides hit an impasse over Britain’s entry fee. – UK exclusion from EU defense loan ‘self-defeating’ – POLITICO