{"id":460123,"date":"2026-07-15T18:31:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/07\/15\/accordo-su-droni-e-partenariato-industriale-ue-e-ucraina-rafforzano-le-relazioni-in-chiave-anti-russa\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:47:07","slug":"agreement-on-drones-and-industrial-partnership-the-eu-and-ukraine-strengthen-ties-in-an-anti-russian-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/07\/15\/agreement-on-drones-and-industrial-partnership-the-eu-and-ukraine-strengthen-ties-in-an-anti-russian-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreement on drones and industrial partnership: the EU and Ukraine strengthen ties in an anti-Russian move"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Industrial partnership for defence and a bilateral agreement on drones: the European Union and Ukraine sign new agreements that strengthen ties and Kiev\u2019s integration into the single defence market<\/a>. The initiatives will enable Ukrainian and European companies to accelerate the development of defence capabilities, strengthen joint industrial production, and collaborate on defence research and development through EU-funded programmes. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Brussels and Kyiv have agreed to promote the joint production of drones and anti-drone systems between Ukraine and EU Member States by the end of 2026. In this regard, the European Commission explains, the new industrial partnership for defence aims to \u201crapidly increase the production and deployment of battle-proven capabilities<\/strong> to counter drones and missiles,\u201d while at the same time providing the long-term predictability needed to bolster investment and expand defence industrial capacity in both Ukraine and the European Union. Specifically, particular attention will be given to protection against drones and short- and medium-range missiles, and the large-scale deployment of defence drone systems, \u201cwhich can be stockpiled outside Ukrainian territory,\u201d the Commission states.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

“The defence industrial partnership integrates Ukraine\u2019s defence economy in the same way that we integrate our markets<\/strong>: by removing barriers and harmonising our standards as quickly as possible, from defence procurement to the protection of intellectual property,\u201d explains the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span><\/span><\/span>EU-Ukraine agreement on drones<\/a>, on the other hand, will combine European industrial capacity with Ukrainian expertise in innovation in this field.<\/span><\/span> It is based on joint ventures between Ukrainian and European companies, to combine Ukraine\u2019s battle-tested capabilities with Europe\u2019s industrial strength and production capacity, fostering “targeted technology transfers” and investment in dual-use sectors across Ukraine. The agreement will accelerate the development and production of next-generation drones and anti-drone systems, providing Ukraine with the capabilities it needs today while strengthening Europe\u2019s defence readiness for the future.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Another instalment from the 90 billion package<\/h4>\n
The bilateral initiatives do not end there. Alongside the two industrial cooperation measures in the defence sector, the European Commission is writing another cheque for Kyiv under the a 90-billion-euro aid package which the EU began making available at the end of June<\/a>: the EU executive has today (15 July) disbursed a further one billion euros to Ukraine for the purchase of drones, a military capability regarded in Brussels as “essential to enable Ukraine to resist Russia\u2019s war of aggression.” But there is more to come. <\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201cOn 30 June, we disbursed the first military aid package to Ukraine intended exclusively for drones. This amounts to \u20ac4 billion, and is the largest drone support package globally,\u201d said von der Leyen at a press conference with President Volodymyr Zelensky, referring to the first tranche of \u20ac6 billion from the total \u20ac90 billion financial support loan to Kyiv. \u201cToday I am pleased to announce a further allocation of one billion euros specifically for drones. But of course, there will be more, because we have just approved a \u20ac10-billion allocation plan for additional drones, missiles, and fighter aircraft. So, this is just the beginning,\u201d concluded von der Leyen.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two new initiatives have been signed to strengthen industrial integration with Kyiv. One billion from the forthcoming \u20ac90-billion package will be used to boost the production of military response systems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":460102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30809],"tags":[31262,28781,25744,33394,30781],"class_list":["post-460123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-security","tag-droni-and","tag-industry-en","tag-ue","tag-ukraine-in-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460124,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460123\/revisions\/460124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}