ENAAT Newsletter 2024-01: “war & borders before climate & foreign aid”

The first 2024 issue of our newsletter “News from the Brussels’ Bubble” is out.
Read it here: ENAAT NBB 2024-01_09.02.2024

 

SUMMARY:

EU Funding for the arms industry
– Public consultation on EU Defence Fund review is open till 21st February
– 2024 EDF calls to focus on next gen-helicopters & cargo planes, hypersonic threats and unmanned/autonomous systems
– Political deal on extra €1.5 billion for EDF, what is left from Sovereignty Fund project
– Failed ammunition target, Norway to access ASAP & EDIRPA
– EDIS, EDIP, €100 billion fund for defence industry cooperation… What is really going on?
– EIB has new boss, launches €175 million risk investment programmes in defence

 

Other aspects of EU militarisation
– Military mobility: 38 new projects worth €807 million
– Deal on 2021-2027 EU budget revision: war & borders before climate & external aid
– Horizon Europe’s successor to fund dual-use research projects with military application?

 

EU Peace Facility & related news
– EPF on the verge of bankruptcy, weapons supply audit and tracking
– New Ukraine weapons fund still in the making, +20.000 soldiers to be trained
– ASPIDES, The new “defensive” EU mission in the red Sea, is agreed

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