Campaign and petition launched to stop ‘ReArm Europe’

Featured image: CND General Secretary Sophie Bolt (middle) takes part in the protest at the BAE Shipyard in Barrow. Photo credit: CND on Twitter/X

1st July 2025Leave a Commenton Campaign and petition launched to stop ‘ReArm Europe’

“This will be €800 billion stolen. Stolen from social services, health, education, labour, peace building, international cooperation, from a just transition and climate justice. It will only benefit arms manufacturers in Europe, in the USA and elsewhere.”

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Stop the War Coalition have joined with a range of peace movement organisations across Europe to launch the Stop ReArm Europe campaign, which has initiated the following petition.

We opose the EU’s plans to spend an extra €800 billion on arms. This will be €800 billion stolen. Stolen from social services, health, education, labour, peace building, international cooperation, from a just transition and climate justice. It will only benefit arms manufacturers in Europe, in the USA and elsewhere.

It will make war more likely, and the future less safe for everyone! It will generate more debt, more austerity, more borders. It will deepen racism. It will fuel climate change.  We do not need more weapons; we do not need to prepare for more wars. What we need is a totally different plan: real, social, ecological and common security for Europe and for the world.

We are taking a stand against war. We want European decision-makers to stop European rearmament and take a serious commitment to global disarmament.

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• You can find out more and sign the petition here.
• You can learn more about the Stop ReArm Europe campaign and the organisations supporting it on their website.
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