EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius broke down the Commission's tentative loan allocations to 19 countries in a press conference with Tech Commissioner Henna Virkkunen in Strasbourg.

Poland's €43.7 billion was the largest recipient country according to the tentative allocation, with almost one third of the total money available under the Commission's SAFE defence loans programme.

Warsaw will receive 2.6 times more than the second-largest recipient, Romania, with €16.7 billion. Rounding out the top five are France and Hungary, with €16.2 billion each, and Italy with €14.9 billion.

The defence commissioner praised the “equal geographical spread” of loans through the programme, which he said demonstrated that "not only eastern frontier countries are interested" in SAFE.

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