European AIREF Accuses Sánchez of Overcoming the EU-Agreed Spending Ceiling Despite Strong Growth
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Several European countries are using an EU scheme that provides extra budgetary room for defense spending for other expenditures. This is evident from…
He questioned whether the government resorted to the Defense clause at the last minute for the sole purpose of escaping the sanctioning file for excessive debt. More information: The Eurogroup asks to stop spending in the face of the rising cost of debt, especially to the most indebted countries like Spain
The Commission's advisory body points out that "the activation of the safeguard was "determining" to "elude" a sanction, but that the increase in military investment "between 2024 and 2025 was minimal" Read
The European Fiscal Council points out that Spain's defense spending has been "very limited" so the body questions that the flexibility that has been granted to it "was really justified", since the deviation is mainly due to "non-defence items"The IIREF warns that adopting new measures for inflation puts at "risk" the fiscal commitments to Brussels The European Fiscal Council expressed this Monday in its annual "doubts" report on "the activation…
Brussels is once again hitting Spain on fiscal matters. The European Fiscal Board, the body that oversees the sustainability of public finances, criticizes the Spanish government for requesting to activate the exemption clause from fiscal rules to spend more on defense, but this item only increased by 0.1% of gross domestic product (GDP, the indicator that measures the size of an economy). On the other hand, Spain deviated by 0.4% of GDP from th…
The European Fiscal Council doubts that the safeguard clause activated by Spain to shield defense spending is justified.The entry The European Fiscal Council questions Spain's safeguard clause: Defense does not justify it appears first in Moncloa.
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