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# DigitalEurope backs European Security Council, urges faster defence procurement
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-09-24-digitaleurope-soteu-defence-security-statement/
- Published: 2026-09-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-24T10:55:38.000Z
- Description: DigitalEurope director general Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, responding to von der Leyen's State of the Union address, backed a European Security Council complementing NATO and urged faster procurement to turn defence spending into deployable AI, cyber, drone, space and secure connectivity capabilities.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, Policy and law, #news, #verified, #opinion, #ai-drafted

Verified Opinion AI-drafted [DigitalEurope statement, 24 September 2026](https://www.digitaleurope.org/news/soteu-2026-technology-at-the-heart-of-europes-security-defence-and-prosperity/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not itself commit funding, adopt a rule or select a supplier; the position is DigitalEurope's own.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. opinion urging faster EU-wide defence procurement and a Security Council; moves no question itself. [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 and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)