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We’re also expanding the 🇪🇺 #STEP platform to boost critical defence tech — AI, cybersecurity, drones — and support military mobility, skills and dual-use innovation.

This is how we turn strategic urgency into lasting capability.

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April 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The world has changed.
Europe must be able to defend itself — and that starts with a stronger defence industry.

Today, we launch a Mini-Omnibus to incentivise defence-related investments in the EU budget.

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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EU budget set for defence-related boost under new regulation*
New targeted amendments to existing EU funding programmes will support faster, more flexible and coordinated investments in Europe's defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB).
ec.europa.eu
April 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Échanges avec les entreprises afin de promouvoir l’innovation et faire face aux défis actuels dans le cadre des journées #TECHNOfest de la #marine à #Zeebrugge. Il est primordial de coopérer et de recruter pour assurer nos missions.
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#TheBelgianNavy
October 5, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Our Union must be ready for the threats of the future. 
  
Our first-ever European Industrial Defence Strategy and our proposed European Defence Investment Programme will give EU countries the full range of defence capabilities required. 
  
Our security, built at home. 
  
👉 europa.eu/!N7wTb4
March 5, 2024 at 11:29 AM
At least it has dawned on pro-war EU bureaucrats that their war against Russia is ending soon & they didn't achieve their goal of breaking Russia. But they're preparing for future provocation towards Russia.
#EUDefenceIndustry.
Danger will not disappear even when the war in Ukraine ends.
We need to toughen our defences against Russia.

The Defence Readiness Roadmap outlines our plan to fill capability gaps with clear goals and timelines.

Extract of my press remarks ↓
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM