Translation of "Défense antimissile au niveau mondial " (French → English) :

Global Missile Defense | GMD [Abbr.]

The aim of this modernisation is to ensure the continued effectiveness of the EU's TDI in the face of new global challenges, for instance various global overcapacities in products like steel and aluminium.

The Commission will: present in 2011 a new strategy on the support of EU SMEs in markets outside the European Union and a strategy for globally competitive clusters and networks[40] with a specific focus on analysing the role played by them in improving SMEs’ competitiveness; address problems of SMEs with regard to the use of the EU Trade Defence Instruments (TDI) by increasing information on and assistance in using these instruments; pursue systematic efforts to eliminate non-tariff barriers in Free Trade Agreements and facilitate SMEs’ access to third country markets and help to enforce IPR, in line with the renewed trade policy.

STAR 21 identifies a number of areas in which the European Institutions, the EU Member States and the industry itself must act to maintain Europe's position as a world-class aerospace producer and to provide the capabilities in defence, security and space which will allow Europe to make essential political choices and to be an effective partner for friends and allies.

Our European allies will possess, at a minimum, lower-tier naval-based missile defences to go along with existing lower-tier ground-based missile defences already in the possession of Germany and the Netherlands.