Deputy Premier and Transport Minister
Matteo Salvini's League party said Sunday that it intends to
propose that the right-wing Patriots group it belongs to at the
EU level launch a campaign to change European Commission
President Ursula von der Leyen's Readiness 2030 defence plan.
"The League is ready to propose an initiative to invite EU
Commission President von der Leyen to review the 800 billion
defence plan to its Patriots' allies," the League said in a
statement referring to von der Leyen's plan, which was
previously called ReArm Europe.
"European citizens deserve investment in jobs, health and
internal security.
"We do not need huge investments to buy ammunition, or a
stillborn rearmament plan.
"The League hopes for a broad, in-depth debate in the Chamber
(of the European Parliament), a debate that the German Von der
Leyen wants to avoid at all costs".
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