Hawks Ursula Von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas tried to use an emergency bypass measure to fast-track part of a $900 billion plan. Luckily, it didn't work.
Next week, the EU Commission will present the White Paper on the Future of European Defence, with guidelines on how to boost production and defence readiness in the face of possible Russian military aggression.
Özlem Demirel gehört zu den wenigen EU-Abgeordneten, die letzte Woche gegen die Resolution des Europäischen Parlaments zum Krieg in der Ukraine stimmten. Wie eine sozialistische Alternative zur Aufrüstung aussieht, erklärt sie im JACOBIN-Interview.
Michael Roberts 5.2.25: "...war is the way out of economic stagnation... Germany’s Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz (after winning the recent election) has adopted the same story. In a complete about-face from his election campaign, when he opposed any extra fiscal spending in order to ‘balance’ the government books, he is now promoting a plan to inject hundreds of billions in extra funding into Germany’s military and infrastructure, designed to revive and re-arm Europe’s largest economy. "
by Michael Roberts 2.3.25, who worked in the City of London as an economist for over 40 years. "Trump sees the United States as just a big capitalist corporation of which he is chief executive. Just as he did when he was the boss in the TV show, the Apprentice, he thinks he is running a business and so can employ and fire people at his whim. He has a board of directors…"
B. Haustein. Hilgendorf, Eric; Hötitzsch, Sven (Hrsg.): Das Recht vor den Herausforderungen der modernen Technik. Beiträge zur 1. Würzburger Tagung zum Technikrecht vom 15. – 16. November 2013., 4 Robotik und Recht, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, (2015)