Summary ......................................................................................................................................................... 5
Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 9
Structure of the Defense Industry Influence in Shaping the EU Political Agenda ...................................... 10
The French Alliance of Arms Producers: Lobbying and Conflict of Interest ....................................... 11
Thales .............................................................................................................................................. 14
Airbus .............................................................................................................................................. 18
U.S.-UK Arms Consensus and Common Interests of Global Investment Funds ....................................... 21
BAE Systems as the Core of the U.S.-UK Influence on the EU Policy ................................................. 21
Saab AB. .......................................................................................................................................... 28
German Lobby Groups : UK-U.S. Influence ............................................................................................ 29
Rheinmetall ..................................................................................................................................... 30
The Kangaroo Group ....................................................................................................................... 32
Die Gesells chaft fьr Sicherheits politik e.V. (GSP) ........................................................................ 36
Deutsche Gesellschaft fьr Wehrtechnik e.V. (DWT) ..................................................................... 37
Raytheon and Rockefeller Investment Funds — U.S. Influence in the EU Public Policy .................... 37
Raytheon ......................................................................................................................................... 39
Beacon Global Strategies and Carlyle Group ................................................................................ 41
Strategic Track of U.S. Interests in the European Defense Sector ...................................................... 43
EU Defense Indus try Corruption in Ukraine .................................................................................................. 46
Odesa Arms Mafia and Its Links to the Highest British Establishment ............................................... 47
German and Latvian Financial Network of Ukraine’s Arms Market ..................................................... 54
Key Cohesion of Ukraine’s Arms Business Vertical: Dombrovskis, Akhmetov and Syrian Mafia ...... 58
Context of Rinat Akhmetov’s Top Political Connections ..................................................................... 60
Appendix: French-British network and Shadow Odesa Traffic.................................................................... 63
References .................................................................................................................................................... 65
About NSC ..................................................................................................................................................... 76
