EU defence ministers push ahead with military projects

A group of European defence ministers are pushing ahead with joint defence projects as part of broader effort at deeper military cooperation.

Federica Mogherini, the EU's foreign policy chief, described the meeting among the ministers in Brussels on Tuesday (7 March) as "historic".

The ministers signed off on some 17 collaborative projects, part financed by the EU budget, to create a so-called

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