{"id":738934,"date":"2026-06-15T20:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/738934\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:09:10","slug":"canadian-firm-lands-eu-safe-defence-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/738934\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian firm lands EU SAFE defence contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u00c9VIAN-LES-BAINS \u2014 Montreal-based Marconi Technologies has become the first Canadian company to land a contract under the SAFE agreement Canada signed with the European Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled the news today at the G7 Leaders\u2019 Summit in \u00c9vian, France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Prime Minister\u2019s Office says Marconi won a contract worth more than $10 million to supply tactical radios made in Canada to Poland\u2019s military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian firm will partner with Polish company Enamor International, with deliveries expected to begin this year and run through to 2030.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The European Parliament formally welcomed Canada into the defence borrowing and procurement agreement known as SAFE in May, the only non-European country to join.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The program grants preferential access to defence contracts financed through low-interest loans under the agreement and is part of a broader initiative aimed at reducing the continent\u2019s military reliance on the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from Kyle Duggan in Ottawa<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00c9VIAN-LES-BAINS \u2014 Montreal-based Marconi Technologies has become the first Canadian company to land a contract under the SAFE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45,49,48,4852,1688,47,44,714],"class_list":["post-738934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-human-interest","tag-manufacturing","tag-national","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}