Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka, an official dealing with EU security and military funding, said Canada had made a “concrete decision” to buy from Poland’s defense industry for the first time and was primarily interested in drones. Canada is the first non-European country to participate in SAFE, the EU’s €150 billion loan instrument designed to accelerate defense procurement and strengthen European industrial capacity amid Russia’s war in Ukraine. Poland has presented SAFE as a major opportunity for its domestic arms sector, with Warsaw expected to channel a large share of its allocation of funds into Polish industry.