'Total waste of money': Former Italian PM Conte rails against EU rearmament plan
In an interview to Euronews, Five Star Movement leader Giuseppe Conte said that the Commission “is exaggerating the Russian threat” to boost military expenditure
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In an interview to Euronews, Five Star Movement leader Giuseppe Conte said that the Commission “is exaggerating the Russian threat” to boost military expenditure
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00:00Former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte called the rearm EU plan recently presented
00:08by the European Commission a total waste of money during an interview with Euronews.
00:13The only thing we know how to put on the table is a plan of rearmament. A plan of rearmament
00:20that means throwing money to give the possibility to all the national states to continue in
00:27a disorderly way to increase military species.
00:33Conte's Five Star Movement party organised a protest inside the European Parliament in
00:39Strasbourg, waving peace flags and demanding the funds foreseen for the military should
00:45be spent on public health and other priorities. He challenges the idea of peace through strength
00:51and believes the EU should have a voice in the peace negotiations between Russia and
00:57the US on the war in Ukraine.
00:59Look, it will be very difficult to defend the region of Ukraine. Very difficult because
01:06clearly the power of the Russian consulate has increased. We said that we would have
01:11collapsed the Russian economy. We even said that we would have been left without projectiles,
01:18without weapons. We were in trouble on the military level. It's all nonsense.
01:24The left group in the European Parliament to which Five Star Movement belongs believes
01:29that the plan will only benefit weapons manufacturers and arms dealers and criticises the fact that
01:36the European Parliament has been sidelined in the approval process.