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EU ministers discuss deployment of drones

19 November 2013

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"European foreign and defence ministers will discuss how to deploy drones for civilian operations, ranging from disaster prevention to deterring human traffickers on the EU's borders, in a two-day meeting that opens in Brussels today (18 November) ....Drones, or Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) as they are known in the EU jargon, have been long identified as a shortfall in the European defence, which relies completely on American and Israeli technology in this field."

See the full text: EU ministers discuss deployment of drones (euractiv, link)

Also see: A new deal for European defence: Toward s a more competitive and efficient defence and security sector (pdf) and Towards a more competitive and efficient defence and security sector (COM 542, pdf)

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