EU Could ‘Cannibalize’ Research Funds To Boost Defense
Brussels did not conduct any impact assessments before making the decision.
Brussels did not conduct any impact assessments before making the decision.
PM Sánchez justified the multi-billion investment by saying “it’s obvious that only Europe will know how to protect Europe.”
“In the last ten years, we’ve increased our spending ten times,” Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said about his country.

As the EU’s benchmark borrower, Germany has dealt a blow to its bloc neighbours by massively upping spending on defence.

Centre-right leaders join the incoming chancellor in blaming Washington and Moscow for Germany’s massive future borrowing.

The EU Commission unveiled the details of its debt-fueled rearmament plan, excluding U.S. manufacturers unless Washington signs a defense agreement with Brussels.

The German centre-right and the left-wing parties bypassed the newly elected parliament to vote for Friedrich Merz’s spending spree.

The CDU leader has given in to the climate demands of the Greens in return for their backing and a two-thirds majority in parliament.

Is this a step in preparation for a future with a less reliable NATO, or one where the EU cannot defend itself independently without Washington’s support?

Germany’s prospective next chancellor is using undemocratic methods to forge an alliance with the Left, itself already rejected by the electorate.