ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the Europeanization of the legal arms trade at the national and supranational level. It focuses on the how the British arms trade operates and then situates it at the European level. The chapter argues that the arms trade is both the 'fast and slow track' of Europeanization. The British government, having argued all the way through the Saint Malo process that capabilities should be at the heart of the Europeanization project, simultaneously tried to protect and advance British arms manufacturer interests. For the purposes of analyzing Europeanization the main point is that domestic producer groups almost exclusively provide the interests that are adopted at the national and supranational level. The European Defence Agency (EDA) is an institution dedicated to reshaping European defence procurement and with it carries the political and economic aspirations of both the manufacturers and the Commission and tangentially the economic aspirations of the British government.
