{"id":2669,"date":"2025-06-18T04:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2025-06-21T07:21:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T14:21:59","slug":"the-case-against-european-union-rearmament-spending-statement-to-the-irish-parliament-re-eu-proposals-com2025122-and-com2025123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"The Case Against European Union Rearmament Spending: statement to the Irish Parliament re EU Proposals COM(2025)122 and COM(2025)123"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This statement is submitted in connection with the Joint Committee\u2019s deliberations on\u00a0the European Union\u2019s (EU) legislative proposals COM(2025)122 and COM(2025)123. Those two measures aim to increase EU member state military expenditures and weapons production. They raise multiple serious concerns regarding the merits thereof, including gravely exacerbating the existing Ukraine conflict and making a peace settlement even more difficult to achieve. They will also contribute to cementing the EU on a path of massively increased military expenditures, which will inevitably displace and diminish other forms of needed government spending owing to the fiscal constraints confronting member states. Worst of all, they could contribute to EU member states becoming directly involved in the Ukraine conflict, thereby bringing the conflict inside the EU. Consequently, Ireland should vigorously oppose the two measures as they are neither in Ireland\u2019s national interest nor in the collective interest of the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Testimony-Irish-Parliament-June-2025-v3.pdf\">READ THE STATEMENT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This statement is submitted in connection with the Joint Committee\u2019s deliberations on\u00a0the European Union\u2019s (EU) legislative proposals COM(2025)122 and COM(2025)123. Those two measures aim to increase EU member state military expenditures and weapons production. They raise multiple serious concerns regarding the merits thereof, including gravely exacerbating the existing Ukraine conflict and making a peace settlement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-political-economy","category-us-policy","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2681,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/2681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}