EU to increase military spending by seventy billion euros despite social crisis
Jerome Hughes
Press TV, Brussels
In just the past nine months the EU and US have together pumped thirty-two billion euro worth of lethal weapons into Ukraine.
At a meeting here in Brussels on Tuesday EU defence ministers agreed to increase their military spending by a huge amount between now and the end of 2025. Apparently, there is an urgent need to replace weapons being sent to Ukraine.
One expert we interviewed online told us it is a dangerous policy.
Many peace activists and rights groups say the military spending is grotesque given the EU's growing social crisis. Those in the European Parliament who oppose NATO, and are calling for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, are furious at attempts to silence them.
Defence ministers have agreed to establish camps in up to twenty EU nations that will be used to train Ukrainian soldiers.
Some security analysts are suggesting long-standing, controversial ambitions to create an EU army within the EU have effectively been put on hold, and now the strategy is to create an EU army in Ukraine.
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