UK floats plan for joint European fund to ‘stockpile’ weapons

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The UK has circulated plans for European countries to establish a “supranational institution” that jointly purchases military equipment, stockpiles weapons and helps to finance large-scale rearmament across the continent.

The informal paper, written by UK officials and seen by the Financial Times, presents the case for a multilateral fund for a “coalition of the…