{"id":419179,"date":"2025-02-19T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T15:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/02\/19\/donohoe-difesa-contano-scelte-nazionali\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T16:18:00","slug":"donohoe-for-defense-funding-national-choices-also-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/02\/19\/donohoe-for-defense-funding-national-choices-also-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Donohoe: “For defense funding, national choices also matter”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – What will be will be.\u00a0It will probably be loosening the rules of the Stability Pact since\u00a0the idea has already taken shape,<\/a>\u00a0and there does not seem to be any closure by national governments.<\/span>\u00a0The revitalisation of defence and its industry<\/strong>, however, first goes through the\u00a0existing tools, starting with national recipes, that is, the\u00a0choices\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>each country is called upon to make<\/strong> when deciding how to use public money, which is taxpayers’ money. The president of the Eurogroup, Paschal Donohoe<\/strong>, wants to put things in order.<\/p>\n

To members of the\u00a0Committee on Economic and Monetary\u00a0<\/a>Affairs\u00a0<\/a>of<\/span>\u00a0the European Parliament, the Irishman reminds them that “yes, there is an ongoing debate” about the possibility of creating new common debt instruments “with views on the subject.” But, to those who ask for an account of what is happening and even more of what may happen, Donohoe reminds that there are, and he lists them, “at least three ways” to be able to mobilise valuable resources to stimulate investment and money for EU defence<\/strong> and security: “There is our budget and the budget that we will have, the decisions that will be made based on the competitiveness agenda, and there are the decisions made at the national level.”<\/p>\n

In the first case, EU member states must choose how to use\u2014possibly shifting them\u2014the resources in the current multi-year budget (MFF 2021\u20132027). Even more, governments will have to choose how to construct, from the perspective of spending priorities, the next seven accounting years (MFF 2028\u20132034). In the second case, it is important to define what to make of that simplification that the Commission says is worth \u20ac37.5 billion a year to small and medium-sized enterprises alone<\/a>. Finally, the actual national economic and spending policy<\/strong>: This is where a good part of the future of the defence and security of the Europe of States will be played out. This\u00a0means that\u00a0politics will have to choose where to invest less and thus cut back to favour heavy industry<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0On this,\u00a0Donohoe cannot answer. MEPs will have to address individual capitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eurogroup president in European Parliament hearing: “Not only common debt; there are other ways to boost the sector”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":419172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705,25727],"tags":[27336,25828,25882,26145,27867],"class_list":["post-419179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-in-the-spotlight","tag-eurozone-en","tag-investimenti-en","tag-paschal-donohoe-en","tag-spending-public-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419186,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419179\/revisions\/419186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}