π¨ Just in: Ursula von der Leyen unveils the "Rearm Europe Plan" to mobilise up to β¬800 billion in defence investment across the bloc.
"We're living in the most momentum and dangerous of times," she says. "We are in an era of rearmament."
"This is the moment for Europe. We're ready to step up."
"We're living in the most momentum and dangerous of times," she says. "We are in an era of rearmament."
"This is the moment for Europe. We're ready to step up."
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- Google, GCP, Play Store
- Amazon, AWS
- Apple, App Store
- Netflix
- ....
Time to act!
Il est temps d'agir!
Zeit zu agieren!
Β‘Es hora de actuar!
Czas dziaΕaΔ!
Tempus aget!
US Companies will be much lower on the priority list from now on.
It sucks, but we will need to push through this before things can get better.
They money should've been invested in the last 40 years but wasn't. It was a total and complete abrogation of basic responsibility in all EU countries.
If we had been investing gradually, we wouldn't get this huge bill now.
Shame on Russia and people profiting from conflict.
But please , ban X, too
1. Triggering the national escape clause of fiscal rules
2. About β¬150 billion in loans at EU level
3. Repurposing cohesion funds for defence
4. Accelerating the Savings and Investments Union
5. The European Investment Bank
Brussels is working on a separate EU plan dedicated to Ukraine, but this appeared unsalvageable due to the vetoes threatened by Hungary and Slovakia.
Make clear for these low puppets it is over. Out immediately
It's really unclear how the β¬800 billion figure, which is enormous, will come together. She says the national escape clause could bring, on its own, "β¬650 billion over a period of four years."
(borderline pensioner here)
"This set of proposals focuses on how to use all of the financial levers at our disposal β in order to help Member States to quickly and significantly increase expenditures in defence capabilities. Urgently now but also over this decade."
https://www.youtube.com/live/97iIX8ljWJ0?si=Yut08ZqT3eqtOznl
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/04/australia-troops-ukraine-albanese-open-to-consideration
putler knocking at Europeβs door should have been the imputus.
We all should have done this.
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Someone over the age of 70 will be along shortly to first give you shit in a reply post to yours that you didnβt ask for, then backtrack and finally patronise you in a hodgepodge of their own opinions.
What a time to be alive.