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# EIB board removes cap on defence and security financing
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-03-21-eib-defence-financing-cap-removed/
- Published: 2025-03-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T12:01:41.000Z
- Description: The EIB's Board of Directors removed the EUR 8 billion ceiling on its Strategic European Security Initiative on 21 March 2025, making defence and security a permanent, uncapped EIB financing goal while keeping its ban on arms and ammunition.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, Industry, investment and R&D, #news, #reported, #ai-drafted

Reported AI-drafted [European Investment Bank press release, 21 March 2025](https://www.eib.org/en/press/all/2025-156-eib-steps-up-financing-for-european-security-and-defence-and-critical-raw-materials?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not raise the EIB Group's overall annual lending ceiling, which EU governments only agreed to lift months later.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

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