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EU Public Institutions Signed 194 Contracts Worth 2.7 Billion Euros with Israeli Companies Between 2022 and 2025
Data collected by Statewatch and reported by Al Jazeera shows public institutions across EU countries signed contracts totaling nearly 2.7 billion euros with Israeli firms from January 2022 to July 2025. The number of deals rose after October 2023. Several member states including Hungary, Germany and Spain featured among the largest signatories.
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Public institutions in European Union countries signed 194 contracts worth nearly 2.7 billion euros with Israeli companies between January 2022 and July 2025, Al Jazeera reported citing data from Statewatch. The number of contracts increased after October 2023. In the 21 months from January 2022 to October 2023, EU institutions signed 82 contracts worth over 1.2 billion euros.
Between October 2023 and July 2025, they signed 112 contracts worth 1.6 billion euros. Hungary signed the most contracts at 42, worth almost 603 million euros. Germany signed 37 contracts for military equipment, cybersecurity software, laboratory tools and medical equipment.
Other contracts included bulletproof vests purchased by Spanish police from Marom Dolphin and by Italy’s interior ministry from Source Vagabond Systems for almost 4 million euros in March 2024. Belgium’s University Hospital Leuven signed a 1.2 million euro contract with GNX Data Systems for genome sequencing software in April 2024.
Spain’s Polytechnic University of Madrid signed two contracts worth almost 300,000 euros with Heqapl for quantum computing equipment in August 2024. Trade in goods between the EU and Israel reached 42.6 billion euros in 2024. A partial suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, signed in 1995 and enacted in 2000, could affect about 5.
Israeli entities received an estimated 1.11 billion euros in Horizon Europe grants between 2021 and 2024 and at least 40 million euros under Erasmus+ between 2015 and 2020. The EU’s European External Action Service found significant evidence that Israel was breaching Article 2 of the association agreement in 2024.
