Reading this paper which tries to estimate how much more it would cost Germany to NOT support Ukraine, versus the current support.
The authors estimate it’s 10 times the current support.
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Dateiverwaltung/IfW-Publications/fis-import/92541751-97c2-4c8f-9067-730998a3fa07-KPB_179_DE.pdf
The authors estimate it’s 10 times the current support.
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Dateiverwaltung/IfW-Publications/fis-import/92541751-97c2-4c8f-9067-730998a3fa07-KPB_179_DE.pdf
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Just like the car industry or digitalisation.
Nobody tells the Germans what to do.
On their way back to the 1960-ies.
But more interesting to me are the numbers on current support for Ukraine, and the following comparisons:
That’s €10.6bn since the beginning of the war. That I knew.
But what I didn’t know is this:
tax) was introduced?
So 0.1% now for a war in Europe vs 0.6% the for a war in the Gulf.
The current subsidies for company cars with combustion engines (€13.7 billion) exceed the total German military aid to Ukraine every year since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
https://home.watson.brown.edu/research/research-briefs/letting-europes-energy-crisis-go-waste-ukraine-wars-massive-fossil-fuel-costs-fail
So here you go, you can read for yourself
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Dateiverwaltung/IfW-Publications/fis-import/2a62f762-49a1-410a-8225-ca50193faa38-KPB_179_EN.pdf
It's an estimate.
It would also be ridiculous to even think that any country in Europe doesn't know what it would cost.
It's a nice to have,as a point of reference.
But not THE fact.
Will any political party admit this in the run up to elections?