“19. Ensure that all projects with regard to capabilities led by participating Member States make the European defence industry more competitive via an appropriate industrial policy which avoids unnecessary overlap.
This was always a NATO problem. USA, France and UK all vie to produce advanced combat aircraft. USA, Germany, and UK vie for MBT and so on. For a Euro policy avoiding unnecessary overlap who makes what?
Will Germany make SSC and MBT? Will France make ACV and FJ? Who will make the rifles, Germany or Belgium? What will the Irish make?