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    840 miliardi di dollari di piano per “arruolare l’Europa” annunciato

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    1. newsweek on

      By Ellie Cook – Security & Defense Reporter:

      The EU has announced a plan to ‘Rearm Europe’, which will mobilize up to $840 billion (€800 billion) in defense investment across the bloc.

      The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said: “We’re living in the most momentum and dangerous of times. We are in an era of rearmament.

      “This is the moment for Europe.”

      Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/eu-rearm-europe-plan-billions-2039139](https://www.newsweek.com/eu-rearm-europe-plan-billions-2039139)

    2. der_leu_ on

      Time to put our weapons where our mouths are.

      If we don’t want to be eaten up by the predatory powers that surround us, then we need to be able to defend ourselves in the most serious way.

    4. Inevitable-Push-8061 on

      That’s huge! I hope Turkey will also be included in European defense mechanisms. NATO alone is not enough, especially given Trump.

    5. Calliuca_ on

      Great. Together with the likely upcoming 400 billion package to strengthen the German army, this is a very big statement

    6. G_UK on

      Wish I’d invested in EU defence companies a few months ago 🤦‍♂️

    7. delectable_wawa on

      Wonder where all the “all words, no action” bros are right now… Good policy takes time and planning, even if you have contingency plans in place. Politics isn’t TikTok, you need to have an attention span for it

    8. ICameToUpdoot on

      That number is… A lot bigger than I thought it was going to be.

      Let’s accelerate!

    9. PainInTheRhine on

      I certainly hope there is a very strong ‘buy local’ component in there. Worst outcome would be to not do it, the second worst outcome would be to send hundreds of billions to US

    10. EuropeanWalker on

      With this ReArm Europe Plan we will REAP the benefits as Europe as a whole.

    12. dj-TASK on

      If trump pulls USA out of NATO will the rest of nato stand together and kick US out of respective countries and let know they are not trusted or welcome anymore ?

      One captured narcissist is destroying decades of peace to appease one evil man in Russia.

    13. Shot_Bison1140 on

      840 billion € under what time span? 1 year, 5 years, 10 years?

    14. ObamaAteMyKFC_ on

      Rheinmetall was the right call to invest in last year, my profits are insane

    16. not_just_putin on

      Better late than never, but damn, that took a lot of time…

    17. BelgianPolitics on

      * €650 billion fiscal national escape clause for Member States’ defence investments (countries will not be “punished” for increasing their defence spending when this causes a budget deficit beyond EU deficit standards).
      * €150 billion in loans for Member States’ defence investments.
      * Additional possibilities to use EU Budget funds for defence investments.

    18. FluffnPuff_Rebirth on

      Alright. Now there’s the means. I just hope it won’t be all wasted on bureaucracy. But this is still a really good start.

    19. SpittingCoffeeOTG on

      Watch US suddenly change tone as they say they want this strong EU, but they don’t want this strong EU 😀

    20. 1983_BOK on

      I’ll believe it once I see it happen. But if it does happen, then that’s great news. Time is due for Europe to become arsenal of democracy.

    21. Timalakeseinai on

      Great news, as long as this money stays in the EU ( or UK at the most)

    22. phplovesong on

      Thats a nice looking sum! Its almost 50% of the entire russian GDP.

    24. AdminEating_Dragon on

      Don’t you dare make that subject to unanimity as well.

    25. QuantumInfinity on

      Great! Now let’s hope some of that money makes it to Ukraine!

    26. istike29 on

      I hope the EU never abandons us. Please don’t forget we are the front line if a war breaks out with russia..

    27. KonstantinePhoenix on

      Well, you can start with the frozen $215Billion Russian money sitting there gaining dust.

    28. sandsonic on

      Good, I don’t mind paying an extra rearm tax if that means we get to live safely

    29. Mental-Summer-5861 on

      And maybe not buying American munitions are on the table 🤔

    30. Mormegil1971 on

      I would say it would be better to put it into rearming Ukraine. They have ground down Russia so far that it can’t attack any other country right now – just look at Syria. So Europe isn’t in any immediate danger. Every weapon sent to Ukraine is one we don’t have to use later.

      Ukraine should be first priority. After that, we can arm up, hopefully faster than Russia.

    31. GRAAF_VR on

      Please invest them in European defense , don’t use it to buy American equipment

    32. Upbeat_Parking_7794 on

      US will regret what is happening. It will lose a lot of international influence, both in soft and hard power.

    35. CriticalBath2367 on

      It’s a shit ton of money but how will they spend it? Hopefully they don’t squander it on dead end R&D projects which results in the most technologically advanced, all singing all dancing multirole weapons platform of which we can only afford to buy 6 of them.

    36. extopico on

      Also need to invest into curtailing the psyops from Russia, China and the USA. Luckily that’s low hanging fruit: Meta, Twitter, TikTok. Someone just needs fucking guts to do something about it.

    37. SavingsDimensions74 on

      “Your fingers would remember their old strength better, if they grasped a sword-hilt“

      Europe awakes 🙏🏼

    38. volchonok1 on

      Important point – its not that EU is giving 800bln in defence. EU is lifting restrictions on deficit spending if this deficit spending is used for defence.

      “It will allow Member States to increase significantly their defence expenditures without triggering the Excessive Deficit Procedure. If Member States would increase their defence spending by 1,5% of GDP on average this could create fiscal space of close to EUR 650 billion over a period of four years.”

      Actual EU investments are only 150bln –

      “The second proposal will be a new instrument. It will provide EUR 150 billion of loans to Member States for defence investment. ”

      [https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/de/statement_25_673](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/de/statement_25_673)

    39. lehmx on

      Yes and let’s stop buying American weapons for Christ sake.
      If we massively increase our defense spending while America disengage from Europe and we continue to buy their crap, it’s a massive win for the orange man.
      Stop subsidizing their defense industry.

    40. cobaltstock on

      Europe has great companies, lots of well educated engineers and tech people, great universities to train more and we don’t have to pay for expensive bases around the world.

      Plus this will be a very modern army with smart tech to minimize boots on the ground.

    41. Rikology on

      World’s new super power! We should have done this along time ago

    42. vaminos on

      The lunatic in the White House is right about one thing – Europe can not rely on the US military to defend their shared interests. We are big boys and we should be able to stand on our own. Speak softly and carry a big stick.

    43. jncheese on

      There was one gun the EU wanted to buy from the US. But Donald used it to shoot himself in the foot with.

    44. pantrokator-bezsens on

      For me it is only important that it will be $0 for US.

    46. Quiet-Pressure4920 on

      Good! Well done and finally one good thing they’ve accelerated!

      Please somehow find a way to include Western Balkan EU candidate countries in this.

    47. rootkeycompromise on

      I am personally looking forward to my 🇩🇰 tax money being airdropped over the European defense industry. 💪🏼

    48. Lucagaf on

      Thank god, let’s hope there is some substance behind the words

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