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Along with the new strategy, the Commission has proposed a European Defence Industry Programme to bridge from short-term emergency measures, adopted in 2023 and ending in 2025, to a more structural and longer-term approach to achieve defence industrial readiness," the Commission said in a statement.

The programme will mobilise 1.5 billion of the EU budget for 2025-2027.