A historic upgrade program must be determined by members at NATO top in the hedge. An international survey now shows that there is no support in some countries.
Before NATO top on Tuesday, the approval of higher defense expenditure in Europe is not consistent. There are considerable majorities for this in the following countries, the “European Council for Foreign Relations” (ECFR) Thinking Factory states in a study published on Monday:
- Poland and Denmark (70 percent)
- Great -Britain (57 percent)
- Estonia (56 percent)
- Portugal (54)
In the rest of Europe, the support for increasing the upgrade percentage to at least 3.5 percent of GDP is quite vulnerable. In Germany, 47 percent of the respondents support higher defense expenditure. There is also no clear approval in Spain (46 percent) and France and Hungary (45 percent).
Italy can therefore be seen as a bucket, where, according to the survey, 57 percent is strong or in principle against higher defense issues. Only 17 percent of the respondents support the project. The Italian Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto recently spoke the “existing authorization”. The military association must say goodbye to old thinking patterns because the world has become more complex.
Also differ when it comes to compulsory military service
For the survey, more than 1,000 people were interviewed in the States from the middle to the end of May. The Thought Factory has ordered the opinion research institutes Datapraxis, Yougov and Norstat.
The image for re -introducing a mandatory military service is also inconsistent. In France, 62 percent of respondents are 53 percent in Germany, 51 percent in Poland. In Spain and Great Britain, only 37 percent of the respondents spoke to the advantage for this. The attitude was not requested in states with an existing compulsory military service.
Source: Krone
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