Brexit turns up the heat on access rules to EU defense coffers
Sophia Besch, a senior research fellow with the Centre for European Reform, said the jury is still out over that assessment. “The big question is whether the European Union can prove that the initiatives improve the operational capabilities,” she said.Aside from the bureaucratic workings of the PESCO scheme, the German-French alliance — seen as an engine of European defense co-operation — has begun to sputter, according to Besch.