Following the choice of the Council of States through the summer time session, the Safety Coverage Fee of the Nationwide Council has additionally proposed to extend army spending by 4 billion francs for the interval 2025-2028, thus rising to 29.8 billion. The choice was taken on Tuesday by a bourgeois majority of 15 votes in opposition to 8 within the committee.
Given the strained improvement of federal funds, these quantities should be compensated elsewhere within the federal home. “The military is the spoiled baby of the Confederation,” criticised CPS member Fabien Fivaz (V/NE). The Greens say they’re “appalled by this incomprehensible determination from the perspective of monetary technique. This extra funding should on no account be compensated by cuts in different areas, resembling worldwide cooperation, coaching and even agriculture.”
For environmentalists, “such an astronomical quantity in addition to doable compensation in different areas needs to be introduced to the individuals”. The issue is that army budgets will not be topic to referendum.
His Socialist colleague Pierre-Alain Friedes (PS/JU) can also be offended: “The PS opposes a brand new huge enhance within the military funds. Notably critical is that it will be detrimental to rearmament coaching and worldwide improvement cooperation. The PS regrets that the choice was taken “with out defining a concrete menace situation or the corresponding idea”.