Before the current horizon of international uncertainty, weapons manufacturers are the ones that have the most raided path. The European arms industry He has taken off as a rocket since Donald Trump arrived at the White House by stirring the ghost of the “Third World War”.
Its value has been put by clouds: In just over a month, the actions of the Spanish Indra have risen 57%. And those of its French and German counterparts, even more than 60%. “Europe has a very powerful arms industry and are being one of the main beneficiaries of this escalation,” says Emilio Vizuete, professor of economy at the University of Barcelona.
Rheinmetallfor example, it is the owner of the Panzer tanks and the German stock market has risen 3.4% thanks to its thrust. He is also dedicated to the car sector, but now a little less because he has announced that two of his factories dedicated to manufacturing vehicles will now make ammunition and defense material.
In the opinion of Professor Vizuete, “it is not a passenger fashion”, but it is likely that “the military spending that the Member States have to face is increased over time.” And is that Germany has even given green light to change its constitution to Allow an increase in its deficitonly if spent in defense. This has been announced by the leader of the CDU and winner of the elections, Friedrich Merz, paraphrasing Mario Draghi during the financial crisis: “It is what costs.”
A paradigm shift to what is happening to the other side of the puddle and while Europe has already announced its next bet: “We are in the era of rearme”the president of the European Commission said, Ursula von der Leyenwhen sketching this week its plan to increase the expense in defense of European powers to be as dependent as possible in the United States. The question is no longer how much, but how.
Source: Lasexta
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