A pivotal moment for Europe is here.
And we are ready to step up and mobilise up to €800 billion for European defence by:
🛡️ Allowing EU countries to increase defence spending within budgetary rules
🇪🇺 Offering €150 billion in loans for defence investments
🏗️ Using cohesion funds for defence
📈 Boosting private investment
We will present these proposals to EU leaders at today's European Council meeting.
Europe is ready to assume its responsibilities.
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@EUCommission
That's a very bad idea.
To "mobilise" a very large amount of money to build/buy tools to kill people?
No, I don't agree. That's not the right thing to do right now.
@Pare @EUCommission Unfortunately some countries are very aggressive and the only way to stop them from waging war is to be armed. Thus, having a lot of tools to kill people allows us to prevent killing people.
It's the hedgehog strategy. Hedgehog's spikes are sharp, but they are used for defence.
