The European Union will increase spending on "defense" by another 70 billion euros

According to the American magazine Defense News, the European Union has decided to increase defense spending by another 70 billion euros over the next three years.

This decision was made in Europe after the conference of the European Defense Agency, which took place on December 8 in Brussels.

In recent years, the European Union has been increasing its defense budget more and more, in an attempt to reduce defense dependence on the United States. Last year, EU defense spending for the first time exceeded 200 billion euros and amounted to 214 billion euros. According to the publication, this is 6% more than it was in 2020.

According to Reuters, the draft declaration for the upcoming summit of EU leaders notes that for many years the EU considered the United States to be the main pillar of its security, but the time has come to take care of its own defense.

Recall that back in the years of his presidency in the United States, Donald Trump often criticized the EU for their small contribution to defense within NATO.

In addition, the idea of ​​creating its own armed forces of the Union has long been discussed in the European Union. EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell also spoke about this, according to whom the EU needs a rapid reaction force of 5 people. However, this idea has not been implemented yet.

Now, against the backdrop of the Ukrainian conflict, the EU has decided to spend billions of euros more on military spending than before. Although the details of where exactly these funds will be directed are not disclosed, it is possible that the plans include the creation of the EU's own army.

Comments

[Iskander2022]

How many people are starving, how many people need help, how many are sick, how many orphans. So much dough for this(((((It would be better if people were helped.

[Anachoret]

The problems of orphans and the sick do not sway the European Union) this is a liberal form of government and every man for himself))
The European Union can only distribute free chocolates to sodomites of all stripes in order to seduce these same orphans), which has been done for the last 40 years, when in Germany, for example, children were given for adoption preferentially to all perverts in order to reduce crime in this direction. Such a liberal approach - each pervert has a domestic slave.

[28st region]

Quote: Iskander2022

How many people are starving, how many people need help, how many are sick, how many orphans. So much dough for this(((((It would be better if people were helped.

Who are you talking about now? About the EU or about us?

[runway-1]

How about this comment:

Quote: Ulan.1812

Why so modest? All proceeds are for weapons.
Not a penny for energy, for education, for medicine, for social programs.
Guns instead of oil.
With a bare ass, but with a machine gun and in a bulletproof vest.

Whom did the author mean?

[opuonmed]

all this is being done against the Russian Federation; rather, they have a plan for a war with the Russian Federation, although a hybrid is already underway!

[Crimean partisan 1974]

and I'm happy for gender ... 200 lard per point in the current situation is wonderful .... well, along the way, history will repeat itself with the taking of the Bastille by the masses

[tralflot1832]

Winter will show how much the euro flew into the pipes of thermal power plants.

[28st region]

I don't understand why you care so much about them. Are you cold or hungry? Yes, and the flag in their hands, let them all die out. I'm more interested in our country. You go along the highway, you look at the grandfather and grandmother chopped firewood and dragged it on a sled to their home. Or after the ice drift, they drag the boat and the woods on the oars. Here's what you need to think about and somehow decide. But they do not think and do not decide.

[Crimean partisan 1974]

you look at the grandfather and grandmother chopped firewood and dragged it on a sled to their home

.... I’ll clarify ... on a sled they drag tree trunks that they saw .. they chop for firewood already at home .. and so .. the older generation prefer to heat a bathhouse in Russian and not with electricity like the Finns ... and so .. .barbecue-mashlik. wild boar on a spit without wood

[28st region]

Exactly. And then I think what is it, why are they with a sled into the forest, and they wanted to heat the bathhouse.

[Crimean partisan 1974]

and they wanted to heat the bathhouse.

.... yes, and grandchildren and great-grandchildren to please with smoked meats

[igorbrsv]

I have not seen something for a long time, so that grandmothers and grandfathers dragged something from the forest, except for mushrooms and berries. Maybe I don't live there.

[Crimean partisan 1974]

Maybe I don't live there.

... as a rule, this is done at dusk ... and in general, old people are thrifty people

[28st region]

You live in a big city, you go to the country in the summer, where everyone is the same, where all communications are connected and naturally you don’t see how people live in the villages.
The 28th region is the Amur region, a pipe to China will run through the region, remember the Power of Siberia, here it is. The strength of China .. The gas processing plant is under construction, partly already operating. Directly write -90% to China. Three HPPs Zeiskaya Bureiskaya, Nizhnebureiskaya 70% to China. Opposite the Chinese city of Heihe, the climate is the same, there is no central heating; everything is heated by our electricity. It is also planned to build 2 hydroelectric power stations. On the rivers Selemdzha and Gromotukha. Two more in the Khabarovsk Territory and the Jewish Autonomous Region. The surveys were carried out by the Chinese and they will build. All this is in the open press.
You look at the Chinese villages, they are right on the border. Lights sparkle, in stores Lights, advertising all night and our darkness.
The pipe does not enter any village and there are no plans.
Something like that.

[igorbrsv]

In our villages they don't drag. There is no one to build it, but grandmothers and grandfathers don’t need it for free. They only come there to live out, so to speak, they provide a "growth" of the population. But there is gas, internet. Why are they there
But in the dachas we have the opposite. It's like there's nothing to screw up here. In the evening, a panel house was installed, in the morning it is gone. But they don't go into the woods either. The rod is closer, at the neighbors

[28st region]

Quote: igorbrsv

ato have gas, internet. Why are they there request

I would like to live in such a village. But only in dreams for the Far East is

[Bingo]

... while the money will still go to the US military-industrial complex, which does not increase the combat resilience of Europe - a direct dependence on the supply of, for example, missiles for Hymars variations

[tralflot1832]

Just one question, 70 billion will be from earned or simply printed. If from printed, then in the EU it’s just right for the people to move the hole on the trouser belt a little to lose weight.

[Brturin]

Quote: tralflot1832

from earned or simply printed

Most likely on the beaten track - loans will be collected ... as an example
The European Commission (EC) has proposed a €750 billion EU post-coronavirus recovery fund... All the €750 billion in the European post-pandemic recovery fund, called the New Generation EU, will be raised by the EC in the form of loans on the commercial market and must be paid before 2058... in order to attract such an amount of loans became legal, the European Commission proposed to the EU countries to temporarily raise the bar for the acceptable level of borrowed funds in the EU budget from 1,2% to 2% of the total EU GDP. https://tass.ru/ekonomika/8575799
so far, EU debt - In the EU as a whole, this figure has decreased from 87,5% to 86,4% ... The highest debt rates were recorded in Greece (182,1%), Italy (150,2%), Portugal (123,4 .116,1%), Spain (113,1%), France (108,3%) and Belgium (2022%). https://eadaily.com/ru/news/10/21/2022/dolya-gosudarstvennogo-dolga-k-vvp-v-stranah-es-k-864-godu-sostavila-XNUMX
they are now actively accumulating debts - defense, for compensation for energy (only the Germans for this 53 billion) ... while the euro was stable and the rates were low, let's see what happens next ...

[tralflot1832]

Thank you for the balance in the EU economy. An interesting thing.

[Ulan.1812]

Why so modest? All proceeds are for weapons.
Not a penny for energy, for education, for medicine, for social programs.
Guns instead of oil.
With a bare ass, but with a machine gun and in a bulletproof vest.