With an eye on the Olympic Games and the Euro Cup, France and Germany prepare to shield themselvesafter the jihadist attack in Moscow has raised security concerns to the maximum. But, also with the Russian threat in the background, Paris resorts to unprecedented measures that aim to accelerate the production of military weapons.

France and Germany want to lead the rearmament of the European Union, of which the European Commission spoke. Especially if we take into account the two important sporting events this summer with their corresponding security challenges: Olympics and Euro Cup, respectively. For Berlin, ISIS-K currently represents the greatest Islamist threat, also in its country.

On the part of our French neighbors they are already thinking, even, in terms of war economy. And his Minister of Defense, Sebatièn Lècornu, says that the conflict in ukraine places us in a kind of “cold war.” “Russia causes a security problem for the entire European continent,” he said in Paris this Tuesday at a press conference.

In this way, it opens the door to requisition factories, personnel or reserves to accelerate the production of weapons for its Army. And if that, it also stops for Ukraine. In this regard, he admitted that “for the first time” he did not rule out “using what the law allows (…) if things are not going on the right track in terms of the pace of production and deliveries.”

“In the coming weeks, industrialists could be forced to prioritize military orders and/or maintain a minimum level of stocks,” since Ammunition shortage and delays of the Aster long-range missile that France Italy manufacture are of great concern.

In Germany, its vice chancellor and economy minister assured this Wednesday that “seeing what happened in Russia, we need to increase security production in Germany and throughout Europe.” All this, just two days after the great European axis, the Franco-German one, announced a “historic” agreement to manufacture tanks of high technology.