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A French Leclerc tank during an exercise

Video. How can EU improve tank production to cut defence dependency on US?

Updated: 08/04/2025 - 13:24 GMT+2

The EU is trying to break its military dependency on the US amid pressure from the Trump administration, and buy more defence equipment in Europe.

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