The new year for the Ministry of Defence begins as the last one ended: with an avalanche of rearmament programmes sent by Minister Guerini to Parliament for rapid and predictable approval. The programmes are still labelled “SMD 2021”, a year that at this point breaks all historical records with 31 requests submitted for a total …
With the transmission to Parliament in the last days of November of another five ministerial rearmament decrees to be approved by the end of the year, the total number of programmes that Defence Minister Lorenzo Guerini has sent to Parliament for 2021 has risen to 23 (an all-time record). These are procurement requests worth a …
The increase of 1.35 billion euro in the Ministry of Defence budget (+5.4%) is driving the growth of overall Italian military spending as calculated by the Mil€x Observatory. The 25 billion mark has been crossed (25.82 billion in total), an increase of 3.4% over 2021 and a leap of almost 20% in three years. One …
Italian military spending will amount to just under 25 billion euros in 2021, according to estimates released by the Mil€x Observatory. These estimates were made according to the new methodology developed by the Observatory and derived from the final data from the financial forecasts of the ministries involved, which shows an annual growth of over …
By 11 September 2021, US and NATO troops will leave Afghanistan, after twenty years of the so-called ‘war on terror’ that began with the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon. This is certainly an important decision (defined as “epochal” by the Italian Foreign Minister) and will start on …
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 …
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 …