Editorial: La Vanguardia

• The increase in defense and security spending in the EU presents a major challenge.
• The NATO's pressure on European countries to increase military expenditures is intense.
• Many European countries cannot finance this new expenditure without increasing public debt.
• The issuance of shared EU debt is one of the proposed solutions.
• Germany suggests revising the stability pact to ease fiscal restrictions.
• European countries are in negotiations of the Rearmament plan, which would mobilize up to 800,000 million euros in armament.
• The construction of a European collective defense poses a sovereignty concession challenge.

Conclusion: It is urgent to make progress in defining, organizing, and financing European defense, in the face of major environmental, technological, and economic challenges that the EU also faces.

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