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European countries lack 'fiscal bandwidth' to keep up defence spending / 36XP4VV
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European defence spending surged last year, but the level of increase is "arguably unsustainable" for many countries, says analyst Fenella McGerty, Senior Fellow at The International Institute for Strategic Studies. "All the pressure to get to 3%, 5% (of GDP)... the fiscal bandwidth isn't there for a lot of countries to be able to achieve this", she says. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES