Navigating Spain's foreign investment screening in the Defence industry (February 2026)
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Introduction
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The government of Spain has legislated an instrument for screening, and potentially vetoing or conditioning, foreign investments in National Defence activities. In a context where we are seeing increasing national budgets in Defence, the consequent expansion and consolidation of the sector and a great deal of interest in it, this instrument will likely be used extensively in coming years.
