Daily procurement news · 23 September 2026 · Episode 2
The Baltics ask Brussels for €500m against drones, and Schiphol wins in court
Four signals: the Baltic states ask the Commission for an urgent €500m for drone defence, a Dutch court clears Schiphol’s ground handling tender, Bucharest signs the feasibility study for metro line M7, and Nuremberg launches Germany’s first carbon-free demolition tender.
In this episode
The Baltic states ask the Commission for an urgent €500m for drone defence
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia asked the Commission for an urgent €500m for defence against drones. A day earlier Lithuania bought gun systems for €5.8m to protect its naval ships.
A Dutch court clears Schiphol’s ground handling tender
A court rejected the ground handlers’ objection to Schiphol’s tender for ground handling, so the procedure goes ahead with fewer handlers and stricter contracts.
Bucharest signs the feasibility study for metro line M7
Sector 5 city hall signed the contract for the feasibility study of metro line M7, Bragadiru to Voluntari. The same day Makyol won a contract of almost 395m lei to modernise an airport platform.
Nuremberg launches Germany’s first carbon-free demolition tender
Nuremberg launched the first public tender for building demolition that requires carbon-free work: a climate requirement written into the specification, not a policy paper.