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 "title": "The EU and Ukraine Sign Their First Bloc-Wide Drone Deal and Launch an 18-Company Alliance",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/eu-ukraine-drone-deal-drone-alliance-18-founding-companies-6-billion-drone-tranche/",
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 "published": "2026-07-17T19:01:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-07-29T18:23:00.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKyiv, 17 July 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * On 15 July, in Kyiv for Ukraine's Statehood Day, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and President Zelenskyy signed an EU-Ukraine Defence Industrial Partnership and launched the \"Drone Deal\" — the first drone agreement spanning the whole EU, after nine bilateral pacts, three of them signed at the Ankara NATO summit on 7 July\n * The Commission disbursed a further EUR 1 billion for drones the same day — the second payment under the roughly EUR",
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