[DPL] Policy

DPL | Policy is the lens on what a single European state decides about its own defence — national security strategies, budgets and spending laws, white papers, and the ministerial and parliamentary decisions behind them. The altitude is domestic: how a government sets its own course and funds it. Multilateral programmes sit in the NATO & EU theatre [INT], agreements between states in [DIP], and the American dimension in [ATL].

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Norway Plans a State-Owned Andøya Launch Pad for NOK 646 Million — Berlin Is Talking to Oslo About Military Launches post image

Norway Plans a State-Owned Andøya Launch Pad for NOK 646 Million — Berlin Is Talking to Oslo About Military Launches

The EU's Arctic Strategy: an Arctic Cable Hub and Icebreaker Pooling — EUR 260 Million Is Ten Existing Defence Fund Projects post image

The EU's Arctic Strategy: an Arctic Cable Hub and Icebreaker Pooling — EUR 260 Million Is Ten Existing Defence Fund Projects

Budget Committee Clears Two Replacement Patriot Fire Units via FMS — About EUR 650 Million, EUR 560 Million Prepaid for an Earlier Slot post image

Budget Committee Clears Two Replacement Patriot Fire Units via FMS — About EUR 650 Million, EUR 560 Million Prepaid for an Earlier Slot

Nord Stream Sabotage Trial Opens in Hamburg — Serhii Kuznetsov Silent, Defence Moves to Dismiss post image

Nord Stream Sabotage Trial Opens in Hamburg — Serhii Kuznetsov Silent, Defence Moves to Dismiss

France Moves the SCAF Fighter to a New Format, National or a New Framework — EUR 2.74 Billion in 2027 to Fly an NGF Prototype post image

France Moves the SCAF Fighter to a New Format, National or a New Framework — EUR 2.74 Billion in 2027 to Fly an NGF Prototype

EU Extends Operation IRINI to March 2029 and Tasks It With Constraining Russia's Shadow Fleet — Council Decision (CFSP) 2026/2243 post image

EU Extends Operation IRINI to March 2029 and Tasks It With Constraining Russia's Shadow Fleet — Council Decision (CFSP) 2026/2243

Kensington Treaty Enters Into Force as Merz and Burnham Exchange Ratifications — Mutual Assistance 'Including by Military Means' post image

Kensington Treaty Enters Into Force as Merz and Burnham Exchange Ratifications — Mutual Assistance 'Including by Military Means'

Seimas Votes 106 to 18 in the First Reading to Delete Article 137, Lithuania's Ban on Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Bases post image

Seimas Votes 106 to 18 in the First Reading to Delete Article 137, Lithuania's Ban on Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Bases

France's 2027 Defence Budget Assigns EUR 1.5 Billion of Commitments to a Ground-Launched Ballistic Missile post image

France's 2027 Defence Budget Assigns EUR 1.5 Billion of Commitments to a Ground-Launched Ballistic Missile

UK MoD: 51 Per Cent of New Defence Contracts Let Without Competition in 2025/26, the Highest Since 2015/16 post image

UK MoD: 51 Per Cent of New Defence Contracts Let Without Competition in 2025/26, the Highest Since 2015/16

Russia's Draft 2027 Budget Puts National Defence at RUB 17.1 Trillion, 26.4 Per Cent Above Plan — RUB 16.3 Trillion in 2029 as Internal Security Rises post image

Russia's Draft 2027 Budget Puts National Defence at RUB 17.1 Trillion, 26.4 Per Cent Above Plan — RUB 16.3 Trillion in 2029 as Internal Security Rises

EU Extends EUMAM Ukraine by Two Years and Adds a Coordination Cell in Kyiv — Two Training Centres, EUR 900M From the Peace Facility post image

EU Extends EUMAM Ukraine by Two Years and Adds a Coordination Cell in Kyiv — Two Training Centres, EUR 900M From the Peace Facility