The European Commission is developing a strategy for the development of the defense industry, taking into account the experience of using taxpayer funds to increase the production of COVID-19 vaccines and for joint gas procurement, according to the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. She says Brussels should stimulate the European defense industry to increase production and consolidation. At the same time, von der Leyen warned that “the world has become tougher.” “We have to spend more, we have to spend better, we have to spend European,” she said. The plan to strengthen Eur…