After Israel has interrupted the truce with a gaza attack that leaves more than 400 dead for now and while Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump talk to the telephone about the war in Ukraine, the European Union Continue on your way to rearme. This was announced on Tuesday the president of the commission, Ursula von der Leyen, which has set the year 2030 as the limit for the old continent to have “strong defense posture.”
In this sense, the president of the Community Executive has pointed out, in a press conference in Denmark, to achieve this goal of being capable of “defending itself militarily” It goes on raising the armament production of the continent and for simply applied by the European Commission to reinforce the industrial base.
«To be prepared for 2030, we have to move. And that is where the EU comes into play, ”said the community president. Although he has recognized that Member States will continue to be “always” responsible for their own troops – from training until deployment – and the definition of the needs of their armed forces, has called Take steps to continental scale to make Europe militarily autonomous and achieve that reinforced defense position.
The community leader has insisted that Europe face a fundamental election about her future. «Do we continue to react to each challenge gradually and cautiously or are we willing Take this opportunity to build a safer Europe? ”, Has he reflected. In this leader, he has called to leave behind the idea that defense spending should increase in times of crisis but reduce in peace times.
Thus he has lamented that the fall of the steel curtain and the Berlin wall carried to invest little in defense and “to an excess of complacency”. “Our adversaries took advantage of that time not only to mobilize again, but also to challenge the rules that govern world security,” he argued.
Four priorities
Regarding this increase in defense spending, von der Leyen has talked about four priorities. The first one is the increase in investment in defense. «We all know that there has been an infinance. The expenditure of the Member States [en este sector] It has increased more than 31% since 2021. Is better but not enough. It is still very far from the United States, Russia and China, ”he warned.
Thus, he highlighted the measures proposed in his rearme plan, such as loans worth 150,000 million euros or the application of the exhaust clause for defense, with which he points to Mobilize 800,000 million for the military sector.
A second key point is to determine What and how to invest. “That is as important as how much,” said Von der Leyen, while calling “a large -scale cooperation throughout Europe to reduce gaps in priority areas,” such as terrestrial, maritime and airport infrastructures. The purpose is to improve them by 2030, so that they facilitate rapid transport of military troops and equipment. It has also called for the joint purchase of missiles, artillery systems and ammunition and develop drone -related technology.
The third point, “the most strategic,” is The increase in support for Ukraineso that the country is “strong enough to be difficult to invade.” In this regard, the president of the Commission has talked about a joint working group with kyiv to coordinate the military support of the European Union and the United States.
As a fourth priority, von der Leyen has urged to «strengthen the industrial base of the EU:« We have leading defense companies that are developing new technologies that are the avant -garde. Still having structural weak points, is not able to produce defense systems In the amounts and the speed that states need».
In this context, he pointed out An eventual “defense buse” To simplify the norms and regulations in Europe, in the same way that Brussels has submitted similar measures to reduce the scope of environmental norms, “from the certification to the existing contracts.”
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