US EditionAdditional funding to secure EDF with multiple new capabilities
- The Spanish government announced a plan to increase military spending by €10.47 billion on Tuesday.
- This measure aims to meet NATO's target of 2% of GDP for defense spending.
- The plan structures investments across five key pillars including personnel and equipment modernization.
- The increased spending totals €10.47 billion this year, reaching 2% of GDP.
- This investment seeks to modernize forces and deter potential attackers against Spain or Europe.
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Additional funding to secure EDF with multiple new capabilities
The government's decision on Thursday to raise defense spending to 5.4 percent of GDP for the next four years will mean a number of additional military capabilities and more ammunition for the EDF, the defense minister of defense and EDF chief said Friday.
Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government to impose unpopular €10 billion military spending hike by decree
Sánchez plans to impose this increase by decree, bypassing the normal budgetary process, underscoring how militarism and war are inseparable from a drive to dictatorship at home.
Sánchez includes in his plan other military expenditures outside of the 2 billion that Sumar already opposes
The plan to reach 2% of the GDP in military spending presented this Tuesday by the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, includes military and armament expenditures higher than the 1,962.98 million already opposed by his coalition partner of Sumar. Sánchez specified that only 18.75% of the total of 10,471 million euros would be destined for the manufacture and purchase of new instruments of defense and deterrence, however, both in the head…
Training hunts, helicopters, vessels and ammunition: purchases included in the Government's defence plan
Coach aircraft for fighter pilots, helicopters, ships, armoured vehicles, shells and ammunition. These are some of the weapons programs that the government plans to promote with the new defense and security plan approved on Tuesday by the Council of Ministers with a total amount of 10,471 million euros.
The breakdown of the 10.5 billion in Defense announced by Sánchez
Where will the Government get the money? What specific improvements for the Armed Forces translates into the government’s investment? These are the economic details of the government’s defense planSánchez embarks on a million-dollar plan of defense spending with the rejection of its partners Modernizing defence and deterrence capabilities, consolidating Spain’s role as a central member of the European Union, promoting a new wave of technological…
The increase in military spending will serve to raise the salaries of soldiers, replenish ammunition and strengthen the CNI secret service
The increase in the number of military personnel and the improvement of their salaries, with 679 million, the modernization of the training and simulation systems, with 928.27, or the recovery of the stockpile of ammunition and explosives, seriously diminished by the deliveries to Ukraine, with 564.98, are among the items that most budget are carried under the Industrial and Technological Plan for Security and Defence. In addition, the secret se…
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