
EU needs a ‘single market’ for defence, MEPs tell Commission
The EU’s defence industry needs to be fully integrated into the bloc’s single market, MEPs said in a new report approved on Wednesday.

The EU’s defence industry needs to be fully integrated into the bloc’s single market, MEPs said in a new report approved on Wednesday.
![EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič outlined how “more than 40 percent of our €51bn in services trade [with canada] is delivered digitally.”](https://static.euobserver.com/2026/03/P-069102_00-10_02-HIGH-285994.jpg)
The commissioned announced Friday, that the EU and Canada have begun to negotiate a so-called ‘Digital Trade Agreement’, with the aim of boosting legal certainty and fair digital trade across the Atlantic.