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Alice Tidey

Poland's €45bn defence loan bid makes up third of EU total

Eighteen member states have put in requests for Commission-issued loans to finance defence projects, with Poland asking for over a third of the total asked.

The EU executive said on Wednesday that Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Finland had requested access to so-called SAFE loans by its soft deadline of 29 July.

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