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# Mitsotakis tells POLITICO Europe needs a common defence loan facility
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-10-23-mitsotakis-eu-defence-debt-interview/
- Published: 2025-10-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T12:02:55.000Z
- Description: Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis told POLITICO that defence is "the ultimate European public good" needing European funding, and floated a common European loan facility for defence projects. He pressed the same case at that week's European Council.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, Policy and law, #news, #reported, #opinion, #editor-read

Reported Opinion Editor-read [POLITICO, 23 October 2025](https://www.politico.eu/article/how-to-share-defense-debt-elephant-room-eu-says-greek-pm/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not show other member states agreeing to joint defence borrowing or any mechanism being adopted.

**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 2026-10-13\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)