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EU countries will assess service changes, such as the addition of AI chatbots and video games, according to a document Euractiv obtained

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Dans le cadre du plan ReArm Europe, les mesures visent à renforcer la base industrielle et technologique de défense de l’Europe en orientant les fonds de l’UE vers la défense et la sécurité.
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The Advanced Technology Research Aircraft was modified with the Eurofighter’s nose to support testing of the ECRS Mk.1 AESA radar. Airbus and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have reached another milestone with the modified Airbus A320 Advanced Technology Research Aircraft (ATRA) recently flying in its Initial Operational Capability (IOC) configuration, after the first flight earlier […]

The Spanish prime minister has publically defended his brother's innocence

Lundi 22 septembre, une grève générale a été organisée en Italie par des syndicats de gauche contre le « génocide en Palestine » et les livraisons d’armes italiennes à Israël.

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The scheme had been running since at least 2018, spanning some 23 countries, according to the EU judiciary body

Rights advocates say the lack of accountability for massacres in March could have profound consequences.

Une vive panique a secoué la commune de Mangina, située à 30 kilomètres à l’ouest de la ville de Beni, dans le territoire du même nom, dans la nuit du dimanche à lundi 22 septembre. Des militaires des FARDC en relève ont tiré plusieurs coups de feu dans le quartier Masimbembe aux alentours de 19 heures, provoquant la fuite précipitée des habitants, qui ont cru à une incursion des rebelles ADF.

Une opération conjointe de la Police républicaine et de la Douane béninoise au poste de Bétérou, commune de Tchaourou, a permis, lundi 22 septembre 2025, de démanteler un réseau de trafic de munitions.

Un conducteur de taxi-auto a été intercepté avec à son bord un colis suspect. La fouille des agents de la Police et de la Douane au poste de Bétérou a conduit à la découverte de 500 cartouches de calibre 12, soigneusement réparties dans 10 emballages de 25 unités chacun.

Le conducteur du taxi, immédiatement interpellé, a tenté de se dédouaner, affirmant qu'il ignorait la nature du colis. Les investigations menées à la suite de l'interrogatoire ont permis de remonter jusqu'au véritable propriétaire du colis. Ce dernier, rapidement localisé, a été arrêté. Il aurait reconnu les faits lors de son audition, selon les informations rapportées par Fraternité FM.

Les enquêtes se poursuivent afin d'identifier et d'arrêter d'éventuels complices liés à ce réseau de trafic d'armes et de munitions.

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The Security Action for Europe (SAFE) Programme is the new EU financial instrument designed to allow EU Member States to speed up their defence readiness by enabling urgent and significant investments in support of the European defence industry, with a focus on filling critical gaps in capabilities and equipment. It is the first pillar of the ReArm Europe Plan/Readiness 2030 strategic plan that aims to unlock €800 billion in defence spending across the EU.[1]

SAFE will provide up to €150 billion in competitive long-maturity loans to Member States that request financial assistance for investments in defence capabilities. These loans will finance urgent and large-scale procurement processes, ensuring that Europe’s defence industry can deliver the requisite equipment.

The features expected of the submitted proposals

The proposals should be:

• Relevant to the defence capabilities of Member States and the EU (e.g. border protection, countering hybrid threats, protecting critical infrastructure, countering cyber warfare, etc.)
• For urgent, large-scale procurement efforts, not small projects
• Involve at least two Member States in a common procurement procedure
• However, requests from individual Member States can also be approved, but only if they are linked to an urgent need and broader geopolitical realities; the proposal must also be submitted on the basis of the timely procurement and delivery of critical assets[2] (for example, the need to procure drones to counter migration movements along routes experiencing a significant increase in traffic, or systems to protect critical infrastructure from potential terrorist threats linked to the situation in the Middle East, could be supported). This is a temporary exception with an initial duration of one year.
• In addition, no more than 35% of the cost of the products’ manufacturing components can originate from outside the EU, EEA-EFTA, or Ukraine, while the countries of origin must meet the conditions set out in the Programme Regulations.

What will SAFE fund?

Category 1:

• Ammunition and missiles
• Artillery systems, including deep-precision strike capabilities
• Ground combat capabilities and their support systems, including soldier equipment and infantry weapons
• Small drones (NATO 1 class[3]) and related anti-drone systems
• Systems and equipment for critical infrastructure protection
• Cyber defence and cyber security systems
• Military mobility, including counter-mobility

Category 2:

• Air and missile defence systems
• Maritime surface and underwater capabilities
• Drones other than small drones (NATO-2 and NATO-3 class) and related anti-drone systems
• Strategic enablers such as, but not limited to, strategic airlift, air-to-air refuelling, C4ISTAR systems (Command, Communications, Information, Control, etc.), as well as space assets and services
• Space asset protection systems
• Artificial intelligence and electronic warfare systems

Countries that have expressed an interest in participating in SAFE and a Timeline for the Next Steps

By 29 July 2025, when the Programme’s first key deadline expired, 19 Member States had expressed an interest in accessing loans through the SAFE mechanism, with potential defence purchases of at least €127 billion.

The Member States in question are Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Spain.

The following resources have been tentatively allocated to the Member States as follows:

Member-State Allocation of Resources (€) Belgium 8,340,027,698 Bulgaria 3,261,700,000 Croatia 1,700,000,000 Cyprus 1,181,503,924 Czech Republic 2,060,000,000 Denmark 46,796,822 Estonia 2,660,932,171 Finland 1,000,000,000 France 16,216,720,524 Greece 787,669,283 Hungary 16,216,720,524 Italy 14,900,000,000 Latvia 5,680,431,322 Lithuania 6,375,487,840 Poland 43,734,100,805 Portugal 5,841,179,332 Romania 16,680,055,394 Slovakia 2,316,674,361 Spain 1,000,000,000

 

30 November 2025 Submission of National Defence Investment Plans

January 2026 Adoption of Council Implementing Decisions

February 2026: Negotiation of loan agreements and operational arrangements, triggering pre-financing.

In search of a European strategic culture and interoperability: Behind the Lines

1. The Programme is part of the EU’s overall strategy on the indivisibility of external and internal security—a strategy which informs every strategic and institutional document it produces in relation to internal and foreign policy. SAFE follows in the wake of the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, but also the intensification of hybrid threats. It is therefore to be expected that it bears the imprint of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as well Moscow’s hybrid attacks against Ukraine and its hybrid operations against EU Member States. Apart from blurring the lines between war and peace—which is a key characteristic of hybrid threats in general—, the specific threat posed by Russia highlights the extent to which internal security is now significantly threatened by a malicious external actor, which can also be a state. This constitutes a further significant change in the recognition and assessment of threats.
2. The main threats that can be addressed through projects submitted to SAFE for funding extend beyond military attack by a hostile nation to include hybrid threats, cyber-attacks, the weaponization of migration and mass border breaches, terrorist attacks, malicious acts, and the sabotaging of critical infrastructure. Which is to say, precisely those threats that are stressed in the broader strategic and political philosophy underpinning the new EU defence policy, mainly via the White Paper on European Defence Preparedness 2030.
3. This works in tandem with the EU Preparedness Union Strategy, which sets out an integrated approach to every threat to the Union’s preparedness for conflict, anthropogenic and natural disasters and crises, the White Paper on European Defence Preparedness 2030, and the Internal Security Strategy: Protecting the EU.
4. SAFE emphasizes investment in the protection and resilience of critical infrastructure/entities, cyberspace, borders, transport, supply chains, information and communication technologies, as well as space investments, technologies and facilities. It is worth noting that most Member States are in the process of transposing the Directive on the Resilience of Critical Entities into national law and developing related strategies.
5. SAFE is a Programme that can further enhance interoperability between the armed and security forces, as well as dual use in the defence / security / civil protection sectors in line with the framework put in place by the EU Preparedness Union Strategy to prevent and react to emerging threats and crises—in particular those in the areas of hybrid threats, border protection, the resilience of critical infrastructure, and cyber security.
6. It can act as a bottom-up catalyst for the emergence of a European strategic culture in both threat identification and investment planning; for the creation of collaborative economies of scale; and for the increased interoperability of assets and systems on the basis of a common European defence capability. This procedure has been followed in other cases where there were difficulties reaching an agreement at the Council level—for example, in the prevention of radicalization. However, there is always the risk that the absence of a statutory coordinating body could lead to fragmented proposals that simply reproduce the various strategic cultures and assessments of risk. Let’s hope that this time, the glass is half-full.

 

[1] For details on SAFE, see the relevant EXPLAINER by S. Blavoukas and P. Politis-Lamprou at https://www.eliamep.gr/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/EXPLAINER-4-EL.pdf. More generally, on the European Defence Fund and the EU Defence Industrial Ecosystem, see S. Blavoukos; P. Politis-Lamprou and G. Matsoukas at https://www.eliamep.gr/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Policy-paper-182-Blavoukos-Politis-Matsoukas-FINAL-EL.pdf

[2] https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/eu-defence-industry/safe-security-action-europe_en

[3] The classification is based on their weight and the altitude they can reach under normal conditions. Specifically, they are:
Class I: small>20 kg; mini 2-20 kg, micro<2kg
Class II: 150-600 kg (regular)
Class III: >600 kg with three subcategories (strike, HALE, MALE).
On the categories, and more generally on NATO’s approach to unmanned aerial vehicles, see Joint Air Power Competence Centre https://www.japcc.org/

Ein Flug der Scandinavian Airlines mit der Vizepräsidentin der Europäischen Kommission, Roxana Mînzatu, an Bord musste gestern Abend nach Schweden umgeleitet werden, nachdem der Flughafen Kopenhagen aufgrund von Drohnen-Sichtungen geschlossen worden war. In einem separaten Vorfall meldete auch der Flughafen Oslo Drohnenaktivitäten.

Ce mardi 23 septembre 2025, à Ouagadougou, le Directeur de cabinet de la Présidence du Faso, capitaine Anderson Medah, a procédé à la passation de service entre Le lieutenant Bernard Yaro et le capitaine Philippe Somda, à la tête de l'intendance de la Présidence du Faso.

"La gestion que j'entends instaurer sera placée sous le signe de la collaboration, du don de soi et de la disponibilité de chacun, afin que l'Intendance de la Présidence du Faso puisse continuer à jouer son rôle de soutien essentiel au Chef de l'État, le Capitaine Ibrahim TRAORÉ, dans sa noble mission pour un Burkina Faso libre, uni et prospère" a-t-il promis.

Comme conseil à l'intendant entrant, le capitaine Philippe Somda évoque la loyauté. "Mon lieutenant, ne vous trompez jamais sur le fait que votre première mission c'est de suivre les orientations de son excellence le chef de l'État" a-t-il conseillé, tout en souhaitant plein succès à son successeur.

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À Kinshasa, le franc congolais enregistre une légère remontée face au dollar américain. Alors que le taux de change oscillait récemment entre 2 800 et 2 900 francs congolais pour 1 USD, il se situe désormais entre 2 700 et 2 750 francs congolais, selon les zones de la capitale et les cambistes.

Bien que modeste, cette évolution suscite l’espoir d’une baisse des prix sur les marchés locaux, notamment chez les consommateurs dont le pouvoir d’achat reste fortement fragilisé.

Die Rufe nach einem Beschuss von unerlaubten Kampfjets aus Russland sind laut, auch US-Präsident Trump sprach sich dafür aus. Helge Adrians ist selbst Offizier und forscht bei der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik zu internationalen Sicherheitsthemen. Worin der Experte aktuell die größte Gefahr sieht.