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THE CAPITAL RE-ARMAMENT: Banking, Public Finance and Private Credit for Defence Industrial Readiness
How did institutional fragmentation and restrictive norms keep European defence outside common funding before 2022?
THE CAPITAL RE-ARMAMENT: Banking, Public Finance and Private Credit for Defence Industrial Readiness: In the decade preceding 2022, Europe’s. Defence-finance a…
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In the decade preceding 2022, Europe’s defence financing was characterised by restraint, institutional fragmentation and a deliberate separation between supranational financial instruments and the military-industrial sphere. The European Union’s self-conception as a peace project translated into restrictive financial norms that kept defence largely outside common funding frameworks.
The European Investment Bank, in particular, excluded defence and armaments from its lending mandate, while EU-level instruments such as the European Defence Fund were limited to modest, forward-looking R&D grants rather than industrial scale-up.
This analysis answers: How did institutional fragmentation and restrictive norms keep European defence outside common funding before 2022? How did the EIB's exclusion of defence and the EDF's R&D-only grants shape financing? What roles do banking, public finance and private credit now play in defence-industrial readiness? How is the capital re-armament reshaping supranational financial instruments for defence?
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THE CAPITAL RE-ARMAMENT: Banking, Public Finance and Private Credit for Defence Industrial Readiness
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