The set of proposals in the ReArm Europe Plan “focuses on how to use all of the financial levers at our disposal in order to help Member States to quickly and significantly increase expenditures in defence capabilities”. While presenting her proposals for the rearmament of the EU, Ursula von der Leyen highlighted the five pillars on which ReArm is based. “The first part of this plan is to unleash the use of public funding in defence at national level. Member States are ready to invest more in their own security if they have the fiscal space” they need. “And we must enable them to do so. This is why we will shortly propose to activate the national escape clause of the Stability and Growth Pact. It will allow Member States to increase significantly their defence expenditures without triggering the Excessive Deficit Procedure. For example: if Member States would increase their defence spending by 1,5% of GDP on average this could create fiscal space of close to EUR 650 billion over a period of four years”. The second proposal will be a new instrument that “will provide EUR 150 billion of loans to Member States for defence investment. This is basically about spending better – and spending together”. The objectives are: air and missile defence, artillery systems, missiles and drones, and anti-drone systems; as well as cyber technology applied to the military.