Deauville, France - European Union countries should encourage their defence industries to specialize production and then pool resources in order to boost the bloc's security capabilities, French Defence Minister Herve Morin told his colleagues on Thursday.

"If we are talking about a European defence industry, we must accept the idea that not everybody is doing the same thing as everybody else," Morin said at an informal meeting of EU defence ministers in Deauville, France.

"For example, we could do some work in France and other work elsewhere, and then pool together," he added.