EU Defense Spending Boost Will Only Sow Discord, Increase Public Debt – Expert

[Sputnik] - 01/8/2025

HERAKLION (Sputnik) - The European Union's plans to ramp up defense spending will only create divisions within the 27-nation bloc and increase the national debt load, Stavros Kalenteridis, a professor at the Aegean College in Athens, told Sputnik.



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