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# Spain adopts decree for EUR 3,680 million in Airbus defence loans
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-09-23-spain-airbus-defence-loans-royal-decree/
- Published: 2025-09-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-15T04:01:17.000Z
- Description: Spain adopted Royal Decree 848/2025 on 23 September 2025, setting rules for EUR 3,680 million in state loans to Airbus Defence and Space and Airbus Helicopters Espana for six modernisation programmes, including EUR 1,040 million for the Hurjet based ITS-C trainer jet.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, Industry, investment and R&D, #news, #verified, #editor-read

Verified Editor-read [Boletin Oficial del Estado, Real Decreto 848/2025, published 24 September 2025](https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-2025-18834&ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not establish that Spain has signed the purchase contract for the Hurjet aircraft themselves, which the Council of Ministers approves separately and 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/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-14\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)