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# EU presents Readiness 2030 White Paper with EUR 150 billion SAFE defence loans
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-03-19-eu-white-paper-defence-readiness-safe/
- Published: 2025-03-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T12:01:31.000Z
- Description: The Commission presented its White Paper for European Defence: Readiness 2030, proposing to mobilise up to EUR 800 billion, including a EUR 150 billion SAFE loan instrument. SAFE loans require at least 65 percent of component costs from the EU, Ukraine or eligible EEA/EFTA states.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, Policy and law, #news, #verified, #ai-drafted

Verified AI-drafted [European Commission, White Paper for European Defence: Readiness 2030, 19 March 2025](https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/eu-defence-industry/white-paper-european-defence-readiness-2030%5Fen?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish that the SAFE Regulation was yet adopted by the Council or that any member state had drawn a loan.

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