{"id":441359,"date":"2025-12-05T10:21:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/?p=441359"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:40:02","slug":"european-parliament-divert-green-deal-funds-to-defense-kubilius-mutually-dependent-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/12\/05\/european-parliament-divert-green-deal-funds-to-defense-kubilius-mutually-dependent-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"European Parliament: divert Green Deal funds to defense; Kubilius: ‘Mutually dependent’ issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Scaling back the Green Deal and sustainability policies to give more support to defence is more than an idea; it is a proposal. A “coalition” of MEPs comprising 13 conservative MEPs (ECR), three popular MEPs (EPP), one liberal MEP (RE), and 1 Green MEP has put forward the proposal. Together, they call for diverting resources away from the green and digital transitions to finance Europe\u2019s rearmament, citing security reasons and as a counter to Russia.<\/p>\n

In the parliamentary question,<\/a> they expressly ask whether the funds currently allocated within the European Green Deal<\/strong> or the climate transition initiatives “could be partially reallocated to strengthen Europe\u2019s security and defence, given that, without security, the EU\u2019s long-term strategic objectives cannot be achieved?” <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Commission does not intend to go along with the request. Or rather, the Commissioner for Defence, Andrius Kubilius<\/strong>, provides a reply to the question, stating that the sustainability agenda is not in question, neither politically nor financially: “Security and climate objectives are mutually dependent, not mutually exclusive<\/strong>,” he points out. He then explains the correlation between the two: “Without security, long-term climate goals are unachievable. Without tackling climate change, extreme events and devastations are inevitable,” as the European Parliament itself recognized.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So, in a nutshell, hands off the Green Deal. The real issue lies in the political action, both European and national. “This is not an \u2018either\/or\u2019 choice,” insists Kubilius. It is a question of “mobilising adequate resources for defence and using them efficiently is crucial.” <\/strong><\/strong>Fundamentally,<\/strong> this principle is of “key importance.”<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conservatives call for resources to be diverted from the Green Deal to defence. Some support from Populars, Liberals and Greens. The Commission does not go along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":252304,"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","show_comment_section":"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":[30809,25706],"tags":[27336,31257,29924,26637,25905,26990,25886],"class_list":["post-441359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-security","category-green-economy-en","tag-andrius-kubilius-en","tag-ecr-en","tag-green-deal-en","tag-ppe-and","tag-sustainability-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441359","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=441359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441378,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441359\/revisions\/441378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}