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Europe Should Consider Joint Defense Budget, ECB’s Kazaks Says
European Union soldiers in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
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The European Union should pool its resources on defense spending and consider a common budget financed by jointly-issued debt, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Martins Kazaks.
Asked whether he would support such a move, the Latvian central-bank chief told Bloomberg Television on Friday this should happen “by all means” as it “would also be more efficient than doing it individually.”