http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-149-enlets.pdf

A major source for fattening Europe’s emerging security-industrial complex is the EU security research programme (ESRP), which the European Commission will fund with €1.4bn until 2013. Theearly preparations for this programme were heavily influenced by a few European arms and high-techindustry giants such as BAE Systems, EADS, Thales and Finmeccanica, which were co-opted by a smallcommunity of policy makers interested in both Europe’s industrial competitiveness and armingEuropean security and defence policy. […]“