Bring European finance ministries kicking and screaming into geopolitics

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  • Henrik Ø. Breitenbauch
The issue of burden-sharing will be a hot topic at the Munich Security Conference, a major annual event that kicks off this week. In Europe the political mechanics of defense budget hikes work differently than in the United States, where it is Congress that holds the purse strings. Across the Atlantic, it is the ministries of finance that play the central role in controlling budgets — defense and otherwise. This means that real progress on raising European defense spending will require convincing the finance ministers and their top civil servants of the new realities of European geopolitics and the direct utility of defense spending.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Publikationsdato17 feb. 2017
StatusUdgivet - 17 feb. 2017

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