Airbus tells leaders to stop buying from the US and defence spending must go to EU companies

Airbus has told European government that defence spending must go to EU companies as this stops dependence on the US.

Michael Schoellhorn, the head of Airbus Defence and Space, said in an interview with Germany’s Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper that Europe must not set “our dependence on others.”

Airbus makes a range of military aircraft which include manufacturing the C295 transport aircraft and the Euro fighter Typhoon fighter jet.

Schoellhorn said in his interview, “If we spend extra money for defense on products off the shelf from the USA, we are cementing our dependence on others.”

“The Danes are seeing right now that this might not be such a great idea, if they ever needed to defend Greenland with their American F-35 jets,” he added.

The US President Donald Trump has made it clear he has his eyes firmly on the NATO territory of Greenland and said this week that “one way or the other” America will own the country, the Kyiv Post reported.

This demonstrates that European security is under threat, and it is no longer a priority for the US despite this so-called “special relationship.”

On Tuesday Friedrich Merz who is likely to be the newt German Chancellor that he intends to boost defence spending by tens of millions of euros.

Schoellhorn said that Belrin must “realise that Europe is under threat and too weak in this new era of history, both economically and militarily.”