The rearmament effort struck discussions on social spending | EUROtoday

More shells and fewer “security”? While the protection finances is named upon to extend to face the “Russian threat”, the thought of ​​financed this effort by slicing off on solidarity spending has been rising for a number of weeks. For the second, no challenge is on the desk, the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, having assured that the rearmament of the nation can be carried out “Without abandoning anything from the social model”. But political figures, consultants and essayists consider that the extra sources supposed for our troopers requires revisiting the principles of the welfare state, leaves-possibly-to make it much less beneficiant.

The debate was posed with very direct phrases by Julien Damon, affiliate professor at Sciences Po. In a textual content, printed on February 25 on the Telos web site, he writes that the system of social safety “Could be led to reduce the wing so that [la défense] ramp -up “. A risk formulated 5 days after remarks made by Emmanuel Macron, throughout a gathering on the Elysée with get together leaders. The President of the Republic had talked about the belief of devoting 5 % of the gross home product (GDP) to navy investments (towards 2 % immediately). He then mentioned he didn’t know if it was the proper costing, then revised the target downwards: “Around 3 % to 3.5 %” GDP, he mentioned, at FigaroMarch 2.

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