On Tuesday 4 March, two days before the Special European Council of EU leaders, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, unveiled her proposals for increasing the defence capabilities of the EU27 in a plan entitled ‘Rearming Europe’. The aim is to allow the Member States to spend more thanks to various types of flexibility in relation to European rules, but above all thanks to new joint borrowing of €150 billion.
The actions put forward are necessary given the...