🏆 The EUDIS Defence Hackathon Spring 2026 EU-wide winners have been selected! 🥇 @TiepointNorway 🇳🇴 🥈 Rubicon 🇫🇷 🥉 Arqus 🇳🇱 After winning locally & receiving mentoring, they are heading to major #EUDefence & innovation events. Autumn 2026 registrations open soon.

A historic step for #EUDefence today in Paris! 🇪🇺🇫🇷 The €15.09bn SAFE Loan Agreement will help France close critical capability gaps and secure key military equipment by 2030. We are raising EU armament cooperation to a new level. 👇

My full keynote delivered at #Eurosatory2026 defence industry exhibition 🇫🇷 ↓ 📹 audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/…

Starting by listening to the keynote speech by Commissioner Kubilius.

And today @EUROSATORY we are !

ILA - already last week ! - was a great opportunity to touch base with EU and UA defence innovators: EU-funded projects like FACT or EPIIC but also many others. With a focus on Germany and Ukraine (Airbus, Quantum Frontlines, ERC Systems etc.) as we were in Berlin.

Staying at the forefront of defence innovation is one of our key objectives. 🇪🇺 The European Defence Fund is delivering results & helping reduce fragmentation in #EUDefence investment. 📢€1 billion in #EDF calls is now open. Let's work together! ⬇️ link.europa.eu/7prGJ9

Today’s agreement on Defence Readiness Omnibus brings big change: Max 100 days to wait for defence industry permits instead up to 4 yrs. Simpler procurement rules, smaller burdens. Small steps in rules, big steps in #DefenceReadiness! We’ll continue to defragment defence market.

Today we sign 1st #SAFE agreement - w Poland. With 43.7 bln € 🇵🇱 starts the biggest security 'project' in Europe. We are moving fast to help 🇪🇺 Member States jointly develop & scale up their defence capabilities & production. SAFE loans will help outproduce & deter Russia.

2/2 🇪🇺 @EU_Commission loans and simplification will help our industry meet NATO targets. But we must move faster—our adversaries are not idle. #MissileTour #ProtectWhatMatters #EUDefence

In France, with Ministers @benjaminhaddad and @RufoAlice visiting @MBDAFrance and @SafranElecDef 🇫🇷 European defence industry has extraordinary potential to help defend Europe and Ukraine. Defence production is ramping up. 1/2

Learn more about the #EDF 2025 call results ⬇️ defence-industry-space.ec.eu…

🇪🇺 Big milestone for European defence. #EDIP is here⬇️ €1.5bn to boost defence capacity in Europe & Ukraine, scale up joint procurement, and reduce fragmentation. This is how Europe steps up, faster and more united. Calls open from 26 March: ec.europa.eu/info/funding-te… #EUDefence

Australia is one of the world’s most important producers of critical raw material. In contrast, Europe is one of the world’s major users. So today, we agreed on four major projects, covering production of rare earths, lithium, and tungsten. And we also agreed to launch negotiations on Australia’s accession to Horizon, Europe’s flagship innovation programme!

Europe’s defence readiness in action. France 🇫🇷 & the Czech Republic 🇨🇿 advance under #SAFE 🇪🇺 Scaling defence industry, boosting resilience, delivering faster. Next: Council approval to unlock funding support. 🔗 #SAFE ec.europa.eu/commission/pres…

« Innovate in the way we boost and fund defence innovation » : one of the Commission’s steady objectives, even more so since we learnt from the brave Ukrainians that tireless innovation and ingenuity is also also way for Europeans to achieve defence readiness.

‘AGILE’: the proposed name of the new programme proposed today by Commissioner Andrius Kubilius and the Commission to encourage fast, disruptive, short term results-oriented innovation!

I had a call with new 🇺🇦Defence Minister @FedorovMykhailo I am sure 🇺🇦will win, 🇺🇦 army will be the strongest & most innovative on the continent! I am committed to help. Today @EU_Commission adopted €90 bln Ukraine Loan Support instrument to mostly fund 🇺🇦 military needs!