Johannes Koskinen (SDP) recalled that economists widely agree that stimulus-based economic policy-making is currently needed not only across the 27 provinces but also around the world.
“The sustainable economy agenda we are looking at today is just such an incentive. The opposition will certainly repeatedly draw attention to the fact that Finland is a net player in the EU’s stimulus package and asks whether Finland should commit to the package, “he said. borrowed from YLE.
Three of the four opposition parties expressed reservations about the stimulus package: the Finnish Party, the Christian Democrats and the Movement Now.
” [European Central Bank] Since 2015 alone, it has sown € 2.8 trillion in loans to the EU economy. It has not really led to an increase in investment, but anemic GDP growth has been based on the constant pumping of borrowed money into EU economies, “said Lulu Ranne (PS).
He emphasized that Finland intends to participate in the package with 6.6 billion euros.
“That’s more than twice as much as we could use for our own use. If we think the debt incentives work, we should spend all € 6.6 billion directly on Finland,” he added. “Exploitation based on Union rules, and primarily on other countries, is not based on acceptable causes, in particular to combat the consequences of the coronavirus.”
Antero Laukkanen (CD) warned against approving the package, considering that it would open the door to the introduction of other financing mechanisms that undermine the development of an economically sustainable and stable Europe.
“If we go through this door, we will face a debt-filled future,” he said.
Juhana Vartiainen (NCP) considered the recovery plan to be an incomplete compromise and as such better than a divided EU.
Even the incomplete outcome of the negotiations shows that Europe is able to act and conclude agreements. It is more valuable to Finns than the shortcomings of this result, ”he claimed.
Aleksi Teivainen – HT