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CEPA analyst urges Europe to embrace fragmented, interoperable defence procurement

CEPA analyst Igor Harry Rusnak argues Europe should stop chasing single unified defence systems and instead accept fragmented national procurement bound by common interoperability standards, citing Ukraine's pragmatic integration of diverse drone platforms as the working model.

Verified Opinion Abroad AI-drafted CEPA analysis, 2 June 2026

What the source does not establish. This is the analyst's own proposal, not an adopted EU or NATO procurement framework.

Index score. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. opinion on procurement design (parts, law); no institution has acted, moves nothing yet. European Sovereignty Index

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