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France dominates EDA R&T expenditure

6th September 2021 - 15:38 GMT | by Flavia Camargos Pereira in Kansas City

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EDA Collective and National Defence Data shows that France is the member state that invested the most in individual R&D and R&T programmes in the last few years, for a total of €14.14 billion.

Aiming to provide its Armed Forces with cutting edge defence systems and equipment, France invested vastly more on national R&D and R&T in the last few years than any other European Defence Agency (EDA) member state.

According to the latest EDA Collective and National Defence Data statistics covering the period 2017-2019, member states spent €22.96 billion ($26.26 billion) in individual R&D and R&T programmes. 

France alone accounted for 63.98% (€14.14 billion) of this total, well ahead of Germany with €5.74 billion, which itself was about 25% of the total.

It was followed by Poland (€543.7 million), Spain (€514.9 million), the Netherlands (€511.3 million),

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Flavia Camargos Pereira is a North America editor at Shephard Media. She joined the company …

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