Damianos calls for stronger single market to shore up EU’s defences

Trade Minister Michael Damianos on Tuesday called for a stronger European single market with the aim, among other things, of using its benefits to bolster the EU’s defence sector.

Speaking after an informal European competitiveness council (Compet) in Nicosia, he said that he and his counterparts had “underlined the growing strategic importance of the defence sector for Europe’s security and resilience”.

Tuesday’s discussions, he said, “focused on how EU instruments … can better support cooperation...