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# EU and Canada sign Security and Defence Partnership in Brussels
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-06-23-canada-eu-security-defence-partnership-signed/
- Published: 2025-06-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T04:04:53.000Z
- Description: The EU and Canada signed a Security and Defence Partnership at the Brussels summit, covering defence industrial cooperation, military mobility and space security, which Canada says opens access to the EU's SAFE loans.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, #news, #verified, #editor-read

Verified Editor-read [European External Action Service press release, 23 June 2025](https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/security-and-defence-eu-and-canada-sign-security-and-defence-partnership%5Fen?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not itself confirm Canada's formal accession to SAFE, which Council records show followed separately later in 2025.

**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/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-20\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)