Germany's next leader, conservative Friedrich Merz, has raised the alarm over European defence but the clock is ticking for him to muster the funds needed to refurbish the armed forces.
Iran rules out 'direct talks' with US on nuclear issueGermany's next leader, conservative Friedrich Merz, has raised the alarm over European defence but the clock is ticking for him to muster the funds needed to refurbish the armed forces.
Merz has suggested he is open to an unusual manoeuvre: recalling the current Bundestag before the new one is formed to swiftly approve new money. Merz said Sunday that"independence from the USA" in defence matters was a strategic necessity and that Germany, long reluctant to throw its weight around, would have to do its part.
"An exception to the debt brake is practically unavoidable to ensure the Bundeswehr is adequately equipped," Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, a senior figure in the Social Democrats, told Bild newspaper. Such a post-election manoeuvre has precedent. In 1998, MPs approved a NATO-backed intervention in Kosovo, Germany's first active combat operations since World War II.As it stands, Germany is just scraping to meet NATO's annual defence spending target of two percent of GDP with the money from a 100-billion-euro fund established in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
"The most decisive and far-sighted step to do this would be to exempt defence spending from the debt brake," Schularick said.
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