Insights
One long note a month on European policy, funding instruments, critical entity resilience and the information environment. The first appears this autumn.
What these notes cover
One long note a month, and two shorter interventions a week on LinkedIn. We follow four files continuously rather than commenting on the news as it comes: that is what makes it possible to say what is changing, and not merely what is happening.
Budget calendar
What is settled before the calls
The 2028-2034 financial framework, commitment votes, trade-offs between programmes: decisions taken months before an instrument opens, which determine what can be submitted to it.
Cyber and defence instruments
In practice, not in principle
European Defence Fund, EDIP, Digital Europe Programme, Horizon Europe cluster 3: eligibility, consortium geometry, procedural traps. What the official guides do not say, and what you find out by assembling the files.
Digital regulation
From the point of view of those who comply
The AI Act and the Digital Services Act: not the political argument, but the obligations that follow from them, their timetable and their real cost to an organisation.
EU-NATO articulation
And its industrial effects
Where the boundary between the two frameworks runs, what it implies for access to funding, and how it shifts the positions of European manufacturers.
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