Germany, France, Italy and 11 other EU countries urge EIB to finance more defense industrial projects. A letter signed by 14 European leaders, among whom Sánchez is not, requests Calviño for more involvement of the entity in rearmament.

European leaders ask the former Spanish vice president to expand the definition of dual use (civil and military) This would mean inflating the list of activities susceptible to receiving credits from this entity, which is prohibited from financing exclusively military projects.