The EIB Group Defence Finance Architecture
Defence equity, dual-use capital, and the structural boundary of weapons and ammunition
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About this report
The European Investment Bank Group is becoming a central institutional actor in European security and defence finance. Its expansion from limited defence exposure to a financing target of more than €4 billion in 2025 marks a structural change in the European capital stack for defence-relevant technologies.
The shift does not simply add another source of funding to the market. It creates a new division between technologies that can be financed through EIB and EIF instruments, including sensors, secure communications, cyber, space, critical infrastructure protection and dual-use deeptech, and activities that remain structurally excluded, above all weapons and ammunition.
Key questions this report answers
- How is the EIB Group expanding from limited defence exposure to a financing target of more than 4 billion euro in 2025, and through which EIB and EIF instruments?
- Which defence-relevant technologies (sensors, secure communications, cyber, space, critical infrastructure protection, dual-use deeptech) can be financed under this architecture?
- Which activities, above all weapons and ammunition, remain structurally excluded, and why?
- What strategic implications does this new division in the European capital stack have for defence-relevant financing?
Who it's for
Bid, compliance and advisory teams working with EU defence funding and procurement instruments, and the counsel who support them.
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