Merz supports easing EU fiscal rules to boost defense spending
- Posted on May 7, 2025
- By Le Monde
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Merz supports easing EU fiscal rules to boost defense spending
EU members are bound by spending rules obliging them to keep the public deficit below 3% of economic output and debt at 60% of GDP. But the EU can suspend the rules in exceptional circumstances and crises, as it did during the coronavirus pandemic when states had to prop up their embattled economies.
