The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchezhas appeared before the Plenary of Congress to inform the national blackout last Monday and to expose the master lines of the defense plan with which 2% of the GDP military spending will be increased already in 2025; an investment that, has insisted, It will not go through the general Courts.
Sanchez has reiterated that the figures of the report that passed by the Council of Ministers and that it has been sent to Brussels will not have an impact on any social policies. He has asked the parliamentary groups, including his executive partner, to add, that they do not “obceque” in presenting a dichotomous scenario in which he has to choose between security and welfare state.
The leader of the opposition and president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóohe regretted that “the greatest investment of his mandate will be done without general state budgets and without parliamentary authorization.” In the same way, he has criticized that Sanchez asks for the plan “if even his ministers (those of adding) support him.”
“What support, if they do not let us vote? That we support you, how? What exactly? Where is the economic memory? The content? The calendar, the strategy and how is it going to become sustainable in time?”
How much and what
The Industry and Technological Development Plan for Security and Defense will be equipped with 10,471 million; although the report, already published on the Moncloa website, reflects more than 500 million additional which will be used in previous credits returns.
Of the 10,471 million euros, 3,712.49 million (35,45%) They will be intended to improve the working conditions, preparation and equipment of the Armed Forces (FFAA).
Other 3,262.76 million will be invested in new telecommunications and cybersecurity technologies, which is the 31,16%.
1,962.98 million euros, the 18,75%will be dedicated to the purchase of defense and deterrence, that is, purchase of weapons as such. This item is one of the most friction between the PSOE and its governing partner, add, which has spoken against the plan as a whole.
He 16,73%this is, 1,751.53 million, they will be invested in support of the management of emergency and natural disasters. With this, it is intended to strengthen the dual abilities of the PCFAs so that they can help more quickly and effectively in emergencies and natural disasters such as fires or floods. Rescue helicopters, cistern airplanes, a hydrographic ship will be bought and will adapt and modernize defense infrastructure to speed up the response.
It will also be invested in missions abroad, specifically, 328.74 million (3,14%).
These figures, added, exceed 11,000 million. Why, then, the plan contemplates 10,471? Because the Government has included a loan settings and returns for previous modernization programs. Its value is 547.36 million (-5,23%).
Where does the money come from?
Pedro Sánchez said the plan The welfare state “will be financed without cutting” not a cent.. He explained that the bulk of the financing would come from three sources: Reorientation of Next Generation funds, generated and remnant savings of the General State Budgets (PGE) of 2023, the last approved, which have not used or are not necessary.
The report deepens the origin of the financing, specifying the sources:
- Minor annuities for contributions EU: 641.56 million euros.
- Incorporation of credits not executed from autonomous bodies of the Ministry of Defense: 97.40 million.
- Credits already executed from previous years that have no reflection in 2025: 1,744.89 million.
- Credits for less foresight of the payment of sentences for patrimonial claims: 103 million.
- Generations of income from services provided by the Ministry of Defense: 632.47 million.
- Less need for the AATT Liquidity Fund by departure from CCAA to markets, lower amortization needs and better public deficit behavior: 2,819.17 million.
- Recovery, transformation and resilience: 1,357 million.
- Loan reimbursements granted in previous exercises by the Ministry of Industry and credits available for new loans: 1,680.83 million.
- CONTINGENCY FUND (FFAA salaries, FFAA pensions): 1,395.10 million.
How much for Spanish companies?
89% of the plan’s financial resources will be invested in Spain and will contribute to generate new opportunities, companies and employment in all the autonomous communities of the country through those already consolidated industrial corridors (such as, for example, the aerospace in Madrid and Seville, that of helicopters in Albacete, that of land vehicles in Galicia and Asturias, or the naval in Galicia, Andalusia), others in the consolidation phase (such as the La Plata Corridor, which crosses the west peninsular by Asturias, Castilla y León, Extremadura and Andalucía), and new industrial-technological hubs that will be created in other CC.AA.
The plan will have a coordinated territorial deployment, which will encourage industrial decentralization through Specific financing and that will apply regional return clauses In public hiring. Factories relocation within our borders and the integration of our productive centers in European value and supply chains, through joint projects and common acquisition mechanisms will also be encouraged.
Horizon and institutional architecture
The Government of Spain plans to maintain the investment in security and defense in 2% of GDP “while the current international situation lasts and until the EU reaches the objectives of industrial autonomy and security collected in its White Book of Defense,” collects the report.
A key piece to project this continuity efficiently and orderly will be the so -called Special Modernization Programs (PEMS). The Plan includes the launch of 31 new PEMS, which will join the more than 50 in progress, and that will mobilize about 3,807 million euros of the total in its first year, with an approximate duration of at least five years, until 2030.
Other mechanisms that will contribute to this long -term deployment will be the National Cybersecurity Planfinancing programs to business consortiums and research centers of the CDTIand the business participations of the Security and Defense Fund (Doors) for the promotion of innovative companies.
The plan will be articulated around existing entities and instruments to avoid institutional overlapping and maximize agility in decision making. Its coordination will fall on a National Security and Technological Sovereignty Committeea newly created agency, under the presidency of the Government, which will be composed of the main sector ministries with competences in defense, industry, digitalization and technology, and by those public agencies that operate or finance technological projects (CDTI, SETT, SEPIDES, ICO, COFIDES, AEE, AEAD).
Its purpose will be to guarantee the correct execution of the plan, the coordination between administrations and its alignment with the European Security and Defense Strategy.
The Committee will also have an advisory council composed of industry representatives, academia, R&D centers, startups, investors, security forces and social agents that will be responsible for channeling the needs and proposals of the sector.
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