“The I was ashamed when I read that a group of countries has committed to spending 2% of GDP the purchase of weapons In response to what is happening crazy people! “. The sharp attack on increasing military spending at the request of NATO comes from there Pope Francis, during an audience held at the Italian Women’s Center on Thursday. “The real answer they are not other weaponsdifferent sanctions, different politicalmilitary alliances said the Pope but a different approach, another way of ruling a world now globalized without baring teeth and building international relations. The treatment model is already in place, thank God, but unfortunately it is still subject to that of economictechnocraticmilitary power. The Chamber on March 16 approved an agenda for Ukraine’s decree proposed by the Lega but signed by all other majority forces plus Italy’s brethren obliging the government to increase defense spending up to 2% of gross domestic product ( today at 1.4%), for a total, according to the Milex Observatory, of 38 billion a year104 million per day.
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The commitment to spend at least 2% of GDP on defense by 2024 was signed by heads of state and government of the Born By doing 2014but only until 2021 ten out of thirty member countries They had reached that threshold. With the invasion of Ukraine, Germany also accelerated and planned an extraordinary allocation of 100 billion euros to strengthen the army. Here, however, the same agenda should be approved with a Bulgarian majority in the House of Representatives not be converted in the Senate (which will vote on the Ukraine decree next week): The Lega has indeed announced with inner tummy ache that it does not want to reintroduce it. “We remain convinced that NATO commitments must be honored, hence the increase in military spending. But with the agenda, a position was taken in the House and that’s why it’s okay,” says the parliamentary group leader in the Senate Maximilian Romeo. However, there was a clear Uturn from the M5S leader on this issue Giuseppe Contethe announced To vote against his party to a possible twin or presented at the Palazzo Madama. In an interview with the press, Conte stressed that “at a moment like this, with high bills, after two years of pandemic and with the recession that families and companies will feel on the skin, it is not clear why military spending must be a priority” .
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The faction of the free and equal in the Senate, led by the faction leader, is also against it Loredana de Petris. A common front instead of all other governing parties, without dissonant voices from the broad Catholic current within the Democratic Party. But Pope Bergoglio defined in his speech: “It is now clear that good politics cannot come from a culture of power, understood as domination and oppression, but only from a culture of concern, concern for people and their dignity and concern for our common home. Unfortunately, the evidence is negative shameful war we see, he explained. “I think for those of you who are of my generation, it is unbearable see what happened and is going on Ukraine. But unfortunately this is the one fruit of the old logic of power which still dominates the socalled geopolitics“. The Pope also returns to a concept that he has repeatedly condemned: the “World War in pieces“. “There has never been a lack of regional wars he notes for this reason I said that we are in the “third world war in pieces, a little everywhere, up to this one, which has a larger dimension and threatens the whole world. But the basic problem is the same, he emphasizes: “We continue to rule the world as one.chess boards‘, where the mighty study the reins expand dominance to the detriment of others”.
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The archbishop of Bologna, the cardinal, also commented on the war in Ukraine Matteo Zupiwho spoke at the 17th Congress of the Anpi: Today he says: “We need one rejection of the war, not only seen as a politicallegal problem. What we need to do is above all else Losing sovereignty to give sovereignty if it serves all those organisms that have been so weakened over the years that we are paying for the consequences. I think of the United Nations, I think of Europe and the need for onestrong international architecture, capable of resolving conflicts, a world authority capable of acting effectively on a judicial level. This generation that experienced the pandemic of Second World War he knew it very well”. there Italian Bishops’ ConferenceFor his part, considers a possible visit by a delegation of Italian bishops to border areas: “A special gesture of concrete proximity”, defined Monsignor Secretary General Stefan Russo.