Some European conservatives are demanding less public spending on welfare, despite its nature as a social investment, and more on warfare, utterly unproductive in socio-economic terms and clearly a burden (even if an unavoidable one in the face of Putin & Trump): www.socialeurope.eu/the-case-aga...
The Case Against Trading Europe’s Welfare State for WarfareA decade of evidence shows Europe’s welfare state drives growth – making calls to cut it for rearmament self-defeating.www.socialeurope.eu