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Significance
It has required a degree of EU-UK coordination, especially to facilitate the implementation of sanctions imposed on Russia’s economy, leadership and regime-supporting elite. However, it has not generated a broader reset in the formal EU-UK security and defence relationship.
Impacts
Ending the dispute over the Northern Ireland protocol would significantly alter the mood of EU-UK relations.
Fiscal pressures could reduce countries’ appetite for defence investment; this may encourage further institutional integration in the EU.
Trade uncertainty could see European defence companies, such as Airbus, more reluctant to invest in the United Kingdom.
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Baltic states,
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Poland,
Ukraine,
EU/UK,
international relations,
politics,
defence,
foreign policy,
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fiscal,
foreign trade,
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Aerospace & defence
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