{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Europe’s Defence Boom Has a Funding Problem","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69dcddf03472e03bc7ef6bd4/1789730731578-a6a60bb1-a5cb-407b-a474-c14799ebffdd.jpeg?height=200","description":"

Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Trump administration’s warnings over the reliability of US security guarantees have created a new paradigm for European defence start-ups and capital.


Calls have grown for regional unity and softer intra-EU borders to help scale early-stage ventures making the technologies that underpin modern warfare. But funding and defence being constrained within national borders are causing inevitable bottlenecks.


In the latest Economic Security Watch podcast, fDi’s Danielle Myles speaks with Stanislaw Kastory, co-founder and general partner at defence venture capital firm Expeditions, about how geopolitics is changing the economics of European security.


00:00 - European Defence Ambitions

08:51 - European Self-Reliance

11:52 - Munich Warning from JD Vance

17:50 - Hybrid war threats


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