Why the EU’s defence pact with the UK makes sense

“Some people in the UK said Brexit gives us a chance to have a different foreign policy in Europe, rather than always be aligned with France and Germany, but nobody says this anymore,” Ian Bond, deputy director at the Centre for European Reform, said.

...“NATO does a limited amount of work in the defence industrial space and defence industry co-operation – but if the EU executive incentivises defence industrial cooperation, it makes sense for the UK to try to stay as engaged to that as can be,” Bond said.