I 27 leader dell’UE firmano il piano per aumentare enormemente la spesa militare al vertice di emergenza

As per Gavan Reilly earlier:

> Arriving at the special European Council in Brussels, the Taoiseach (while welcoming the thrust of it) portrays Ursula Von Der Leyen’s €800bn ‘Re-Arm Europe’ package as irrelevant in Ireland’s case, given budgetary surpluses and no need to borrow for spending.

““If member states increase their defence spending by 1.5% of GDP on average, this could create fiscal space of close to €650bn over a period of four years,” von der Leyen said. Defence spending in many EU states is below the Nato target of 2% of GDP.”

For context, the yanks spend more than this every year and we need to catch up on infrastructure level capabilities.

The US has been hounding NATO nations to meet their commitments for years now and it’s sad that it has taken this approach from trump to make it happen.

Can’t fund social housing or build new hospitals or restore cancer services yet can spend hundreds of millions if not billions on weapons.

FFG are an absolute shower of wankers.

Increasing military spending is fine so long as that money is spent in Europe, we need to be as self sufficient as possible and military spending has a multiplying effect on the wider economy and on technological innovation. 

Even Hungary? That’s odd, right?