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Macron: EU needs ‘hundreds of billions’ in defense spending as US pivots away (www.politico.eu)

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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday urged EU member states to agree on "massive, common funding" to unlock investments of hundreds of billions of euros for European defense and security.

"We will give a mandate to the European Commission to define our capacity needs for a common defense," Macron said in an interview published in several French newspapers on Sunday. "This massive funding probably reaches hundreds of billions of euros," he said.

His comments come ahead of a special EU summit set for Thursday that will be focused on defense.

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[–] Valmond 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

So we're like 0.5Bn people, lets shake up a couple of euro bills each.

[–] Mvlad88 13 points 20 hours ago

200 Euro per person? Shut up and take my money.