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National capitals fear European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will exploit this crisis to extend Brussels' powers to new areas and strengthen her influence vis-à-vis national governments.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, she sidelined countries to purchase vaccines on their behalf, and at the start of the war in Ukraine, she took the lead on Russia sanctions and weapons deliveries for Kyiv. This centralizing approach earned her the moniker of “Queen Ursula.”

EU leaders don't want this to happen again on a sensitive issue like defense spending.

“Defense is still very much also a national responsibility,” said a senior EU diplomat last week explaining their country's opposition toward an defense cash pot handled by the Commission. Like others in this story, they were granted anonymity to speak about a sensitive topic.

This week von der Leyen will outline how she intends to loosen the EU’s spending rules to allow countries to effectively exempt military spending from Brussels’ tightly controlled budget deficit limits, several officials said, as the bloc reels from mounting fears that Trump will abandon Ukraine and Europe.

EU countries, however, are divided over the fine print of the "national escape clause" — an emergency mechanism designed to ease pressure on countries facing a sudden emergency.

Von der Leyen said that this mechanism will be applied “in a controlled and conditional way” to prevent rampant spending from highly indebted countries.

But fiscally conservative states such as Germany and the Netherlands, and military heavy hitters like Greece, want to limit the emergency clause to countries that already spend more than 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense, as an incentive for others to hit that target.

The idea has angered states that are short of this target, including Italy and Spain.

“That’s absurd because it would prevent countries that most need to increase spending from doing that," said a third senior EU diplomat.

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