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# Council lets five EU programmes fund defence under ReArm Europe plan
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-12-18-eu-council-defence-investment-regulation/
- Published: 2025-12-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-08T12:01:59.000Z
- Description: The Council adopted a regulation on 18 December 2025 amending five EU programmes, Digital Europe, the European Defence Fund, Connecting Europe Facility, STEP and Horizon Europe, to allow faster, more coordinated defence-related investment under the ReArm Europe plan.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, Policy and law, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [Council of the European Union press release, 18 December 2025](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/12/18/council-adopts-measures-to-incentivise-and-simplify-defence-investments-in-the-eu/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** This does not itself allocate new money; it only changes the rules under which the five existing programmes can fund defence projects.

**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 2026-10-07\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)