The latest issue of the ENAAT newsletter ‘News from the EU Bubble’ is now Available here
Summary:
EU funding for the arms industry
- MEPs & Council reach deal on EDIP: EU Military Sales mechanism to boost arms exports?
- SAFE loans: negotiations open with UK and Canada
- Next EU-long term budget: military focus a given, divergences on degree and scope
- EIB: more money and faster decision-making on military projects
- EU-Israel: no sanctions and EU draft strategy, Elbit out! campaign
other aspects of European militarisation
- Defence readiness roadmap: Europe ready for war by 2030?
- Governments regain control over “Europe of defence” plans
- Drone Wall becomes EDDI and go South
- ‘Omnibus for defence’: deregulation for the arms industry in progress
- Kyiv open for arms exports
- Military objectives officially enter the EU’s AI strategy
- EU-India Security and Defence Partnership in the pipeline