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For a variety of reasons, the European countries have considered joint procurement of military equipment and European armaments cooperation as desirable but usually secondary aims since the mid-1950s. The military usefulness of interoperable or standardised materiel, the political mileage derived from common projects like Franco-German programmes and the consequences of economies of scale, are some of the reasons which have always been, and no doubt will continue to be, invoked in favour of a European (or Atlantic) dimension of the arms market.
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Heisbourg, F. (1988). Public Policy and the Creation of a European Arms Market. In: Creasey, P., May, S. (eds) The European Armaments Market and Procurement Cooperation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10024-8_3
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