In the halls of public institutions of voice, which indicate that underground, but never disappeared, confrontation between the countries of the Northern and Southern European Union will surf with an updated force, will be resumed on the occasion of negotiations of the new community. The reason is that it is the southern economy that will have to increase its payment in defense in the coming years, but these efforts will partially have the greatest impact on the northern states in which, even if the military payment is already high ,,, They are geographically more prone to Russian threatAnd to have legitimacy to claim most of the future general budget for defense.
Efforts intended for European South come from several fronts. It is enough to look at the NATO statistics to check the long path that they should go in this area before it is considered security payments in the environment of 5% of GDP. Spain is still a state that devotes the smallest resources for this purpose: 1.28% of GDP and, according to the government, will reach 2.1% next year. But This is not an isolated case on the Mediterranean coastItaly was 1.49%, according to the last number of Atlantic alliance and France of 2.06%.
Only Greece is an exception for its tension, which never completely extinguished the Turkic, and the conflict that remains open between Athens and Ankara on the island of Chip. The North of Europe is a reverse currency, since Poland, traditionally threatened by Russia, spends 4.12% of its GDP in defense, while in the same line are located Little Baltic Republics and FinlandThe last countries that even share the border with the Russians.
This is a situation of vulnerability, which cannot be ignored in the distribution of general defense resources and mass games of the latter, you will have to go to Northern Europe. Especially given that the proposal of countries such as Spain did not flourish, in which it was forced to finance this sign with special subsidies, and not resort to funds that each country translates into a common overgrown bank.
But there are even more aspects in which the new budget This will inevitably be unbalanced from north to southWithout an already inevitable reduction in the general agrarian policy, it will have as large victims of the side sacrifices in France, Spain and Italy, the beneficiaries of more than 10%, in each case of the resources that the famous PAC mobilizes. On the other hand, there are, again, the Baltic republics, which receive a maximum of 1%, or Finland, which is 1.7% of the PAC.
More antagonisms
Moreover, the interests, from the point of view of politics for this area, are usually antagonistic from other points of view formulated in such capital as Copenhage or Madrid. Northern countries much more permissible positions of supporters In such delicate ones as mirror sentences.
This nomenclature is obliged to claim additional agricultural producers who respect the same environment and health standards that apply to their colleagues in the European Union – the most demanding in the world.
More expensive export
In northern rigidity, it causes concerns, as it will make the import of products impossible for production in its own soil. In the case of the countries of the South, on the contrary, it is not the use of mirror positions to competitors, such as Morocco, implies the destruction of their agricultural farms.
However, from this point of view, the gap between both regions may not be as deep as in other areas. It is enough to assume that Poland is agricultural power and that it also enjoys important participation in the PAC, since receives more than 8% of total resourcesThe field even in industrial Germany has an important group of farmers and a ranch.
But in negotiations on the public budget, the third point of friction will still arise, which will revive the old battle between modest countries and the alleged wasteful. In Brussels, again the first group claims that the second is to rethink Games of social expensesAnd the size of their administrations, in order to obtain resources with which you can contribute to the new priorities of the European Union.
