European defense budgets have doubled from EUR 200 billion to EUR 400 billion over the past five years.
Christen-Democratisch & Vlaams · PPE
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European defense budgets have doubled from EUR 200 billion to EUR 400 billion over the past five years.
Chips are, after oil and vehicles, the most traded product in the world.
Internal barriers within Europe cost the EU economy around 1,700 billion euros annually, more than total trade between Europe and the United States.
The result is more than 1 million displaced persons, of which nearly 400,000 are children.
The mandate of UNIFIL, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, expires at the end of this year.
500 innocent civilians were killed in Bucha
One million jobs have been lost in the past four years
The EU forms the largest trading bloc in the world.