{"id":2360,"date":"2026-01-20T17:08:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:47:01","slug":"no-2-europes-industrial-pivot-why-defence-is-becoming-the-new-growth-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/no-2-europes-industrial-pivot-why-defence-is-becoming-the-new-growth-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 2. Europe\u2019s industrial pivot: why defence is becoming the new growth engine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div>\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2360\" class=\"elementor elementor-2360\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4cf47ac elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4cf47ac\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5d04004\" data-id=\"5d04004\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ced96c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ced96c4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Europe is not only investing billions in defence because it simply wants to. Europe is investing because we have no other choice.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After losing major industrial positions in telecoms, electronics, chips and increasingly automotive Europe needs a sector where it still has:<\/span><\/p><ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">world-class engineering;<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">export competitiveness;<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">state-backed long-term demand;<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">and protection against offshoring.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">That sector is: Defence &amp; Aerospace.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And whether Europe succeeds will not depend on budgets but on something far more fragile:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">a supply chain that must scale faster than ever before.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is where the future of Europe\u2019s industrial competitiveness will be decided.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe is not only investing billions in defence because it simply wants to. Europe is investing because we have no other choice. After losing major industrial positions in telecoms, electronics, chips and increasingly automotive Europe needs a sector where it still has: world-class engineering; export competitiveness; state-backed long-term demand; and protection against offshoring. That sector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions\/2379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}