Paul Dermine

@derminepaul.bsky.social

Professor of European Law at Université Libre de Bruxelles Previous stops: CJEU, EUI, Maastricht University and KULeuven Everything about EU integration, institutions and economic policy

Von der Leyen has just announced the Commission's "Rearm Europe" plan. The most important parts target national fiscal space: The Commission will activate the national escape clauses in the fiscal rules and put a new loans-based instrument on the table. Here is what it means:

No surprises from Von Der Leyen's plan to rearm Europe announcement this morning, except that she has announced a €150bn common facility rather than €100bn. Her letter attached

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