Share with your friendsChancellor Friedrich Merz has secured an exemption for military expenditure from Germany’s strict debt-brake rules, enabling a dramatic boost in the defence budget – and reverberating through Europe’s defence industry. Germany is embarking on its largest military
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Share with your friendsBritain is under sustained attack from Iran—not with armies, but through assassins, cyberweapons, and street-level criminal proxies. In a damning new report, the UK Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) warns that Tehran has become one of
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Share with your friendsBAE Systems delivered robust financial results in 2024, reflecting strong defence sector momentum. Annual sales reached £28.3 billion, a ~14% year-on-year increase in constant currency terms. Underlying EBIT climbed to £3.0 billion, up 14% in constant currency, and operating
Share with your friendsThe UK has long underinvested in defence, hiding behind percentage-of-GDP metrics while delivering woefully outdated capabilities. The 2025 Strategic Defence Review (SDR) commits to raising defence spending from ~2.3% to 2.5% of GDP by 2027, with ambition
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Share with your friendsFor years, Ukrainian experts have warned that the Moscow Patriarchate’s church network often serves not just religious purposes but strategic ones. This suspicion – long evident in Ukraine – is now gaining traction across Europe, from Sweden
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Share with your friendsFor over four decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been under siege—not just through sanctions and speeches, but via a relentless, largely undeclared campaign of sabotage, cyberwarfare, assassinations, and airstrikes. Orchestrated primarily by Israel and the
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Share with your friendsRheinmetall AG delivered record financial results in 2024, driven by surging demand amid Europe’s “Zeitenwende”, historic shift in security policy. Group sales jumped 36 percent to €9.75 billion, from €7.18 billion in 2023, reaching the company’s target of
Share with your friendsThe Baltic states and Finland are racing to redraw their rail networks on European terms. Soviet-gauge tracks – once binding these countries to Moscow – are being supplanted by European standard-gauge lines in a strategic shift with
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Share with your friendsChina’s recent imposition of export restrictions on seven critical rare earth elements has significant implications for global defence industries, particularly affecting the United States and its European allies. These elements are essential for advanced military technologies, including
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Share with your friendsQuestions remain about the effectiveness and sufficiency of efforts to address Europe’s security challenges, as the European Defence Agency (EDA) celebrates its 20th anniversary. However, there has been a significant expansion in defence spending and collaborative initiatives
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