Opening ceremony of BEDEX 2026 - with Theo Franken, the Belgian Minister of Defence and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

NATO’s Rutte at BEDEX: “Belgium is back”

The first BEDEX functioned more as a political-industrial meeting point, less as a traditional arms fair. NATO messaging, European defence industrial cooperation and supply-chain building all converged in Brussels. BEDEX served mainly as a venue for industrial cooperation announcements rather than large procurement contracts. The Belgian Minister of Defence raised a current topic: How the

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