The increase is 6.4% with a raise of more than 1.5 billion euros compared to 2019. Methodological note This sheet elaborated by the Mil€x Observatory on Italian military expenditure aims to provide the most precise and in-depth assessment possible of the Italian State’s military investments in 2020 with the documentation currently available. A methodological premise …
Expeditions to Kabul and Iraq burned 10 billion € from the italian budget. Imagine if Italy had not participated in the missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. On balance Italy would have saved exactly the money needed this year to finance the Income of Citizenship and Quota 100. According to the analysis carried out by Milex, …
The 2018 MIL€X 2018 Report shows a further increase in Italian military spending: 25 billion euros in 2018 (1.4% of GDP), an increase of 4% compared to 2017 which reinforces the growth trend started by the Renzi government (+8.6% compared to 2015) and which resumed the incremental dynamics of the last three legislatures (+25.8% since …
Articolo pubblicato su Sputnik News.com il 10 giugno 2017 This year Italy will once again ramp up its military outlays to meet NATO’s requirement agreed upon in 2006 that members spend at least two percent of their GDP on defense. In an interview with Sputnik, Enrico Piovesana, a defense expert and the co-founder of the Observatory …
United States and NATO renewed their demand to Allies on raising their military expenses to 2% of national GDP, reproaching Italy for its insufficient 1.1% of GDP allocated to the military. Data from the first annual Report published by the MIL€X Observatory on Italian Military Expenditure – just presented in a press conference at the …