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Defence industry: Commission kick-starts European Defence Fund with €1 2 billion and awards 26 new industrial co-operation projects for more than €158 million

The Commission has adopted a package of decisions supporting the competitiveness and innovation capacity of the EU defence industry. The adoption of the first European Defence Fund (EDF) annual work programme paves the way to the immediate launch of 23 calls for proposals for a total of €1.2 billion of EU funding in support of collaborative defence research and development projects. Furthermore, under the EDF s precursor programme, the European Defence Industry Development Programme (EDIDP), 26 new projects with a budget of more than €158 million were selected for funding. In addition, two major capability development projects received today a directly awarded grant of €137m under the EDIDP.

EU military projects face delays, leaked document shows

Europe’s military cooperation pact has been called a “Sleeping Beauty” and a progress report obtained by POLITICO shows the much-vaunted initiative is struggling to wake up. The program, known as Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), brings together 25 EU member countries, working in smaller groups on a total of 46 joint projects. The projects cover land, sea, air, space and cyberspace and range from drone defense through maritime surveillance to intelligence training. But three and a half years after PESCO was launched to great fanfare by EU leaders, many of the projects are still in their infancy and a significant number are behind schedule, according to the annual report.

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