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CEPA fellow Nico Lange urges EU quota for sovereign defence technology

CEPA senior fellow and IRIS director Nico Lange argues Europe must earmark at least 10 percent of defence procurement for disruptive, sovereign technologies, rising to 30 percent by 2030, saying the US is no longer Europe's automatic security backbone.

Verified Opinion Abroad AI-drafted CEPA analysis, 23 April 2026

What the source does not establish. This op-ed proposes a quota; no EU institution or member state has adopted or funded it.

Index score. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. No move: opinion proposes EU-wide sovereign procurement quota; binding 1, scale 3.. European Sovereignty Index

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. How the record is made

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