EU ministers explore ways to spend on defence without breaking EU rules
European Union finance ministers were discussing on Tuesday how to spend more on defence without breaking EU rules and ...
Central bank body BIS flags markets' blessing for European defence spending surge
Central bank body, the Bank for International Settlements, has refrained from voicing its usual concerns about rising debt, ...
Armin Papperger, the German defence boss intent on re-arming Europe
Outspoken Rheinmetall chief whose rising profile has come at personal risk sees transatlantic strains as ‘good for business’ ...
The dawn of euro defence bonds?
The European Union's latest joint borrowing plan is likely just a fraction of what will be needed to defend the continent, ...
CounterPunch2d
More Guns, Less Butter: Starmer’s Defence Spending Splash
The urge to throw more money at defence budgets across a number of countries has become infectious.  It was bound to happen ...
EU ministers back proposal of temporary exemption on defence spending in EU rules
European Union finance ministers on Tuesday backed a proposal to use the flexibility in the bloc's revised fiscal rules to ...
Boosted defence spending will come at cost of manifesto pledges
That’s not an aim that can be met by increasing defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP and having a vague plan to get to 3 per cent at some point in the future. (Yes, output targets are stupid in a ...
Dutch Parliament Urges Government Not to Join EU Defence Plan
European leaders including Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof last week hailed proposals to give EU member states fiscal flexibility on defence spending, and to jointly borrow up to 150 billion euros ...
The Economist12d
Europe will need to pull all the levers to up its defence spending
Guntram Wolff of Bruegel, a think-tank in Brussels, and Alex Burilkov of Leuphana University Lüneburg calculate the immediate ...