Europäische Verteidigung: Spannungen steigen, Budgets folgen – aber die öffentliche Unterstützung ist ungleichmäßig
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/european-defence-tensions-rise-budgets-follow-but-public-support-is-uneven/89349728
Europäische Verteidigung: Spannungen steigen, Budgets folgen – aber die öffentliche Unterstützung ist ungleichmäßig
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/european-defence-tensions-rise-budgets-follow-but-public-support-is-uneven/89349728
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The lead: „As European Union countries ramp up military spending, public support across the continent remains uneven. While the war in Ukraine, growing hybrid threats from Russia and uncertainties regarding U.S. commitments to NATO have galvanised policymakers, polls reveal a more complex picture of public sentiment and national priorities. This is A European Perspective* on defence in Europe.“
One sure way of losing sight of where you are going is worrying about where everyone else is going. EU needs to decide what type of polity it needs to be. Opportunity and crises comes and goes, it’s a nation’s core interest that assigns it value.
> Uneven public responses
> In frontline countries such as Lithuania (49%), Finland (48%), and Poland (46%), security and defence dominate public concern. In contrast, just 12% of Spain’s population and 19% in Greece prioritise defence, focusing instead on employment, migration, and climate change.
And it’s perfectly fine to have different priorities in different regions. EU is rich enough it can afford to solve multiple problems at the same time. Reforming means making sure that money reaches the people who need it, the way they need it, that’s why people today consider the biggest problem with EU now to be the veto: because of how it stops EU from exercising its true power to its fullest extent.