The meeting between Ursula von der Leyen and Mark Rutte this Thursday in Brussels was not just another appointment about Ukraine. It was, in fact, a discussion about how to transform the European economy for a new stage of rearmament.
The President of the European Commission and the Secretary General of NATO met at Rutte’s private residence to prepare for the Atlantic summit in Ankara in July. But the focus of the conversation was how to increase industrial defence production in Europe and how to do it quickly. Very quickly.
