Lack of trust kills integration. In the field of security and defence, this lack of trust is a killer for any meaningful integration. It is the reason why European nations do not really pool and share military assets or, if they do so, share only those parts that are the least relevant for national security. As a consequence of Europe being a Seven EU countries have ordered ammunition under a landmark European Union procurement scheme to get urgently needed artillery shells to Ukraine and replenish depleted Western stocks, according to Europe’s security will benefit if the EU can keep moving towards convergence on arms export policy. 1: The combined arms exports of European Union member-states accounted for 27 per cent of global arms exports between 2014-18. 2: Goods that have both a military and a civilian application are known as dual-use. RZn2rfz.