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# EIB Group's security and defence financing quadruples to over EUR 4 billion
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-01-29-eib-defence-security-financing-2025/
- Published: 2026-01-29T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-01T10:51:20.000Z
- Description: The EIB Group said its security and defence investments quadrupled to more than EUR 4 billion in 2025, close to 5% of its EU financing, within a record EUR 100 billion in total annual commitments, and it aims to hold that share in 2026.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Industry, investment and R&D, Defence and space, #news, #verified

Verified [European Investment Bank press release, 29 January 2026](https://www.eib.org/en/press/all/2026-024-powering-europe-eib-group-invests-a-record-eur100-billion-to-support-shared-prosperity-security-and-european-values?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** This does not establish which specific defence programmes received EIB financing or that the 5% share will be sustained in 2026.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. EIB defence/security financing over EUR4B in 2025; no specific programmes named. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)