🇪🇺 Commissioner for Defence and Space, former Member of the European Parliament, former Prime Minister of Lithuania 🇱🇹
Jun 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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@salondubourget visit today was a good opportunity to meet again with leading European defence & space companies
🇪🇺 Europe has the technologies, the talents, and the innovative capacity to deliver on what we need to protect our citizens and our freedom
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From advanced satellite systems to cutting-edge defence platforms,🇪🇺industry shows what it means to be strategic & sovereign in critical technologies
Companies visited include: MBDA, Thales, Safran, Dassault Aviation, INDRA, Airbus, Exotrail, Unseenlabs, Latitude and others
Apr 30 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
🛡️ Today, the @EU_Commission allocates €910 million under the 2024 #EuropeanDefenceFund for 62 selected 🇪🇺 defence projects.
This is a major step to close critical defence capability gaps and reinforce Europe’s strategic autonomy.
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#EDF2024 #EUdefence 2/8 These investments target areas such as:
✅ Force mobility
✅ Drone & counter-drone systems
✅ Next-gen rotorcraft
✅ Autonomous mine sweeping
✅ Stealth tech
✅ AI-enabled systems
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