Only Germany has stated that it wants to spend generously on defense
Germany is the only European country that has so far told the European Commission that it wants its defense costs to be excluded from the rules of budget deficit that EU members must comply with.
To facilitate them for these unplanned food, the Commission said that military spending can be excluded from national budgets, which should be adhered to to 3% deficit. According to European rules, governments must submit a request to the Committee on Release.
| « We are facing an exceptional threat in the field of security. She is unprecedented and therefore in March we went out with the » rearmament of Europe « . One of its key pillars is to give more fiscal space to the national levels to pick up speed in their defense costs, and therefore the idea of a collectivity. |
Brussels gave them a deadline to do so by April 30, so that it could coordinate the removal of military expenses from budget food.
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Two days before the deadline expired, such an application was submitted only by Germany, as the governments of other countries, including Portugal, Slovenia, have announced that they have similar plans but have not yet sent them.
A European Commission spokesman said on Monday that governments were not asked to submit programs to be released, but only to apply. He added that the time given was flexible and that a few days would not be a problem, but the idea is that applications will be evaluated in May and given in early June.
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The idea is to announce the release on June 4, when the European Commission will submit a spring pack of recommendations on European semester – European EU Economic and Social Coordination Policy.
