CDU and CSU reject renewed borrowing by the EU. „Borrowing to finance the Coronavirus recovery program in the emergency situation of the pandemic must remain an exception“, states the joint EU election manifesto, which the CDU and CSU presidiums adopted in a joint meeting. The two parties are thus contradicting calls from southern European member states for the EU to take on more debt in the next mandate. The Commission is apparently considering financing the joint procurement of weapons by the member states via loans in the next mandate.