Luxembourg
Should the European Union's "climate bank" now become a defense bank?
The pressure to finance the growing military investments of the Old Continent has agitated the Forum of the European Investment Bank (EIB), a large rally organized Wednesday and Thursday in Luxembourg, where this institution, little known but increasingly in demand, is headquartered. The union.
Its new president, former Spanish Economy Minister Nadia Calviño, who arrived at the beginning of January, is facing increasing demands to reorient her strategy in this direction.
The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, who represents the twenty-seven member states, traveled from Brussels to “
insist on the need to invest more in our security and our defense”.
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According to him, this is a “
pillar
” of “
our European sovereignty”
and should be an integral part of the single market.
Seventy years after the rejection of defense Europe promoted by…
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