European governments are poised to further scale up their plans for defence spending in the coming years which should benefit the equity prices of European defence companies, but the boost to GDP is likely to be small. As things stand we think the bulk of any additional borrowing is likely to be done by national governments rather than the EU, and this will add to fiscal pressures in countries such as France and Italy.
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