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Germany Commits €100 Billion To Defense Spending

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Surprise defense spending pledge splits German coalition Germany’s foreign minister said the country “is ready” to follow a 5 percent of GDP spending target, but that’s Subsequently, the German government set up a special fund of €100 billion (about $112 billion) for the Bundeswehr. In 2024, regular defense German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz won a vote in the Bundestag on 18 March 2025 to allow the country’s biggest ever defence spending.

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In mid-2025, Berlin’s new government unveiled a record defense budget for 2026. The draft Ukraine reaching levels unseen since federal budget calls for roughly €108.2 billion in military spending next year.

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German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said his country is prepared to move toward spending 5% of its economic output on defense, backing a goal pushed by US President Donald Trump Friedrich Merz’s “whatever it takes” plan to unleash defence spending and overhaul German infrastructure is set to usher in the largest economic stimulus since the fall of BERLIN — The cash-strapped German government is looking at how it can include the financing of transport infrastructure used by the military into its defense spending to meet

On 27 February 2022, German Chancellor Scholz gave a speech to the Bundestag that marked a sharp change of course from the previous Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has opened talks with the Social Democrats to quickly approve as much as €200 billion ($210 Germany has met a NATO alliance target to spend 2% of its gross domestic product on defence for the first time since the early 1990s, a defence ministry spokesperson

Defense spending surges The draft budget allocates €62.4 billion to defense in 2025, equivalent to 2.4 percent of Germany’s GDP. Germany’s defense spending has risen sharply in the wake of Russia’s war in Ukraine, reaching levels unseen since 50 billion the Cold War. In 2024, Berlin’s military outlays surged to That €100 billion ($109 billion) investment package runs out in 2027, and all remaining funding is expected to be allocated by the end of this year. Without the special fund

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How Germany’s Bundeswehr could spend billions of euros Nina Werkhäuser 03/26/2025 Germany has paved the way a massive increase in defense spending. What does Friedrich Merz needed the support of two-thirds majority in parliament for his plan to unlock billions for defence and infrastructure spending. Germany’s parliament on Tuesday

Germany weighs massive defense spending deal before far right can block it A sense of urgency is rising as parties on the extreme right and left may be able to block defense The parties hoping to form Germany’s next government agreed to create a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund and overhaul borrowing rules in a tectonic spending shift to Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers‘ approval to loosen strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the strength of the

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Key Insight: The €100 billion special modernization fund established in 2022 continues to drive Germany’s rearmament efforts, enabling large-scale procurement and

Speaking at an emergency session of the German parliament to discuss Russia’s war against Ukraine, Scholz said that his government would set up a special €100 billion fund