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Commission unveils Defence Industry Transformation Roadmap and SME fund

The Commission's Defence Industry Transformation Roadmap proposed an EUR 1 billion EIB/EIF-backed Fund of Funds for defence SMEs and recommended states put at least 10 percent of arms budgets into disruptive technologies.

Verified Editor-read European Commission Communication COM(2025) 845 final, 19 November 2025

What it does not test. It does not itself commit the EUR 1 billion fund, which still needs EIB/EIF launch by the first quarter of 2026.

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.

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-11. How the record is made

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