nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/7669770dae8300d7 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260818s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/7669770dae8300d7 doi eng 342 23 Vedaschi, Arianna Author aut SAFE and Italy’s Hesitation - A Stress Test for European Defence Financing Vedaschi, Arianna Verfassungsblog 2026-08-18 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 28 July 2026, Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, announced that the government had “decided to use SAFE, requesting an intervention of 14.9 billion euros by the end of the year”. He corrected himself within hours: the 14.9 billion had merely been “booked”. Defence Minister, Guido Crosetto, added that the SAFE decision is a genuinely political choice that the Houses of Parliament will be asked to authorise. Budgetary sovereignty, we argue, is not a residue of national sovereignty to be overcome on the path toward the common defence. CC BY-SA 4.0 Article 122 TFEU Defence EU Italien Recovery and Resilience Facility Regulation (EU) 2025/1106 SAFE (Security Action for Europe) (DE-588)10290611-7 gnd EU (DE-588)4027833-5 gnd Italien Sulmicelli, Sergio Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/safe-and-italys-hesitation/ raw object