NBB 2025-1: REARM Europe plan, headlong rush into the rearmament race

This new edition of our ‘News from the Brussels’ Bubble’ focuses on the REARM Europe plan, intending to bring European militarisation to a different scale.

Read it here: NBB2025-1, 07/03/2025

summary:

EU funding for the arms industry
– Negotiations on EDIP still stalled one year after proposal publication
– EDF 2025 prioritise ground systems, incl. mass production of kamikaze drones
– “EU defense industry lobbying soars” – Politico confirms findings of our 2023 report
– “Omnibus for defence”, or how to facilitate arms dealers’ business, including exports?
– EIB coming shift in lending policy: all but lethal weapons and no more ceiling

Other aspects of EU militarisation
– REARM Europe Plan: projections up to €800 billion in next 4 years, yet not enough?!
– EU-UK security and defence partnership soon on track… And what about the nukes?

EU Peace Facility and related news
– New military aid package to Ukraine failed consensus at European special summit

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NBB 2025-2: ReArm Europe first implementation steps

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The latest issue of the ENAAT newsletter ‘News from the Brussels’ Bubble’ is now available online here We’ve witnessed another acceleration of EU militarisation in the past weeks, and today’s Newsletter tries to make an overview of the state of play as accurate as possible as of end of April, presenting first the main steps already taken by the EU to implement the ReArm Europe plan and White paper on defence, as well as other developments regarding EU militarisation, in particular the European Defence Industry programme and the revision of the EU Common position on arms exports control

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ENAAT position on EU Defence Industry Programme

22 April 2025

The European Defence Industry Programme: Another step towards arms race and exports deregulation In March 2024 the European Commission presented its Proposal for a Regulation establishing the European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP), accompanying the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS). While EU member states have been discussing the proposal for a year now, in particular debating whether the funds may also be used to buy arms from outside the EU, the European Parliament in March 2025 decided to fast-track its own decision-making process through an urgent procedure limiting the possibilities for discussion and for tabling amendments, with a view

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REARM Europe, the Myth of a European Defence for Peace, 7 May at 5.30pm

18 April 2025

As an organisation, grassroots movement or activist fighting for a better world, are you concerned about the exponential rise in military spending and its negative impact on your area of work? So are we! The European Network Against Arms Trade invites you to an online event as part of the Global Days Against Military Spending (GDAMS 2025) to learn about the latest developments, discuss how the European military spending and rearmament plan will exacerbate the global arms race and fuel conflicts, and how civil society can mobilise against European militarisation. The event will start with short presentations by

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