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EDIP, SAFE & EU Defence Funds: The Rules Nobody Read
On 3 September 2026 the European Court of Auditors published Review 01/2026 on EU defence policy. The spending numbers were covered everywhere. The rulebook in the same document was not — and it puts Germany, Austria and Switzerland on three different sides of the same line.
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Why this matters for startups in Germany, Austria and Switzerland: Germany, with the largest defence budget in the Union, did not apply for SAFE. Austria has no EU defence funding recorded in the Court's 2021-2027 country breakdown. Switzerland…
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