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DEFENCE-FINANCE ANALYSIS
Operational
28 pages · PDF · 30 January 2026
With the introduction of the Sovereignty Seal under the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP), the European Union has equipped its industrial policy with a selective and formalised instrument designed to ide…
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DEFENCE-FINANCE ANALYSIS
Strategic
6 pages · PDF · 04 March 2026
The European Union’s pursuit of open strategic autonomy has entered a decisive operational phase with the full implementation of the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP).
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DEFENCE-FINANCE ANALYSIS
Strategic
5 pages · PDF · 22 September 2025
The 2025 amendments to cohesion policy explicitly align EU structural funds with the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) and with Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs).
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DEFENCE-FINANCE ANALYSIS
Operational
19 pages · PDF · 21 December 2025
In the aftermath of the EU’s 2025 defence readiness mandate, Europe has undertaken a substantive recalibration of its financial architecture, dismantling the long-standing separation between civil and military funding t…
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DEFENCE-FINANCE ANALYSIS
Strategic
7 pages · PDF · 03 February 2026
The transition to a sovereign European industrial base in 2026 is currently facing its most significant bottleneck: a chronic shortage of specialized talent.
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DEFENCE-FINANCE ANALYSIS
Strategic
6 pages · PDF · 03 February 2026
The Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP), formalized under Regulation (EU) 2024/795, introduces the Sovereignty Seal as a definitive institutional endorsement for high-impact industrial projects.
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DEFENCE-FINANCE ANALYSIS
Tactical
17 pages · PDF · 09 March 2026
Oxeon is a Swedish materials engineering company specialised in spread-tow thin-ply carbon fibre reinforcement technologies marketed under the TeXtreme brand.
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