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EU Council and Parliament strike provisional deal on defence procurement

Council and Parliament negotiators reach a provisional deal quadrupling defence procurement thresholds, adding two mandatory intra-EU transfer licences and raising the SME funding bonus, still needing formal endorsement by both institutions.

Reported Editor-read Council of the European Union, press release (via GlobalSecurity.org mirror), 10 June 2026

What it does not test. Does not itself take legal effect; the text still needs formal endorsement and legal-linguistic revision.

How this item counts. Towards autonomy: it changes whose law governs. Binding 2 of 3 (agreed or funded), scale 3 of 3 (large), Reported counts half: weight +3 of 36 possible. Provisional deal mandates intra-EU transfer licences for defence procurement, EU-wide, not yet in force. 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 2026-09-23. How the record is made

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