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Parliament and Council agree EU's AGILE defence innovation programme

European Parliament and Council negotiators reached a provisional political agreement on the AGILE programme, a EUR 115 million fast track grant instrument for SME defence innovation, targeted to start operating on 1 January 2027.

Verified AI-drafted European Parliament press release, 15 July 2026

What it does not test. This does not establish the instrument as law; formal endorsement by Parliament and Council is still to follow.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. EU-wide SME grant instrument agreed provisionally; not law, no tech named. 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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