Pedro Sanchez appeared on Tuesday at a press conference after the cabinet meeting to detail the security and defense plan approved by his government. Now he will go to Brussels, where it will be evaluated by the European Union and NATO.
The total investment that the Spanish state will be defense will be, according to Tuesday, 10.4 billion euros. With this budget, many working lines will be launched, including an extension of the armed forces as well as the creation of a digital shield.
According to the North Atlantic Alliance request, Spain joins an increase in investment in defense in the full emission of the war in Ukraine. Ignore a tax increase in the budget increase, which will reach 2 % of GDP.
The current expenses of the executive director in this field are 1.4 % and the plan to reach 2 % in 2029, and thus the investment was accelerated, which is also the request of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who defends an increase of 5 % in all NATO member states.
This increase in spending occurs despite the fact that public state budgets have not been approved and extended. Indeed, in March, Moncois said that the expenses in the defense will increase, as it advanced to the “Euronews”, a PSOE spokesman in Congress. However, the exact number has not been set.
This decision is part of the national plan for technology development, its promotion and the defense industry, a strategy that corresponds to the investor’s ambition in the European Commission, which has asked member states to fill a continental re -download. This plan has been announced at a Nawab conference indicating that it will be launched this summer, however, it has arrived before.
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