Between negotiating about Ukraine’s future and increased defense spending requirements, NATO leaders will also find time to war game how to respond to a concrete attack from Russia.
Despite past commitments to bring green manufacturing back to the bloc with a European Sovereignty Fund, the EU only stumped up €10 billion in a radically trimmed-down funding programme.
Officially, Hungary wants clarifications on the future role of the EU’s peace fund, but local sources claim the move is also a response to Kyiv’s unfair decision to sanction a Hungarian bank.
Health care systems with a high degree of government funding were ill-prepared for the pandemic; systems with a higher degree of private and semi-private funding had a much better capacity to respond.
The package includes ammunition for the U.S.-supplied HIMARS, which has been termed a “gamechanger” by Western officials. With their 300 kilometres range, they have proved highly effective in hitting various strategic targets.
Swiss media companies had seen their revenue streams dry up over the past 20 years, pushing many publishers to the brink of extinction. Even so, a proposed law to subsidize private media companies with public money was rejected by Swiss voters.
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