Amb. Jorge Domecq, CEO of the European Defence Agency, says Europe needs “an innovative and competitive industrial base,” and discusses his message to the recent Eurosatory land-warfare trade show in Paris, strategic defense investment, maintaining transatlantic defense ties in the face of a potential trade war and much more during a wide-ranging, June 14, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington. The interview was conducted during the 2018 EU Security & Defense Washington Symposium that was cohosted by the EU Delegation to the United States and the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.