Germany has set to vote with historical increase in defense expenditure

What happened today, here in Berlin, affects the whole future of European defense and its continued support for Ukraine.

The Parliament in Germany, the Bundestag, voted if the brakes were taken to spending defense. This can be a way for a large military investment uploft as making profits in Ukraine and Washington Signals that Europe can no longer trust us.

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“After Munich’s security conference, then Trump-Zelensky Row, Europe got a wake up call. For the first time Europeans could no longer trust in Washington. Many people were unable to change at night.”

“The view for the European Defense is spent on Germany, as the owner of the largest defense of the region, the senior defense defense for strategic studies in London.

German defense expenditure rose 23.2% last year, helping driving a record of a record of 11.7% increase in European Defense Outlay.

“The odd initiatives announced in Germany are the key to making increased growth,” Dr McGerty added.

“Without them, any progress made to strengthen German military capabilities may be shocked.”

The coming new Chancellor in Germany, Friedrich Merz, is in a race time.

The new parliament gathered on 25 March and not all the favor of all money spent, especially by defense.

Both the right-handed AFD party and the left linen link promises to oppose it. The vote needs two-thirds in favor of withdrawal, so Merz has a better chance that it happens today, under the previous (old) parliament. It should be approved by the long house in Germany.

While Europe still comes with surprises of notifications from the Trump administration.

In the last month of Munich’s security conference I looked at as the delegates were sitting opening the vice-President JD vacance attack on European service policies in migration and free speech.

These days are before through the US Defense Secretary Pete Hegswh who tells members of Nate’s defense that the 80-year-old American umbrella for Europe should not be given.

European defense satchgists planned for unimaginable: a semi-victorious Russia who produces Ukraine’s acquisitions, such as east states, such as east states, such as east states, such as east states, such as east states, such as east states, such as east states, such as east states, such as east states, such as east states, like states of ents East, like east states, such as east states, such as east states, such as east states, such as state states, within three years or less.

It, at a time when US European defense commitment is very looking forward. President Trump urged some of his circle to pull US troops in Europe and even withdrawing from NATO throughout NATO.

There is a talk about France that raises nuclear nuclear control over the other countries in Europe.

Meanwhile, most European governments are forced to expand defense expenditure after years of cut.

The British Army is now worsening the smallest size from Napoleonic Wars, more than 200 years ago, and experts predict that it was running out of a full-time war in Europe.

Germany has long been careful about spending defense, not only for historical reasons that began in 1945, but also because of the world’s world crisis.

That brings us back to the essential vote of the current Bundesest. It’s not just about defense. One side is about release of € 500bn (£ 420bn) for German infrastructure – repairing items such as changes in the change, a climate-selling object.

The other part is about removing the restrictions in the constitution on borrowing that could, in theory, free up unlimited billions of euros for defense spending, both for Germany’s armed forces and for a pan-european defense fund. In 4 in the March Ursula President Commission Der Leyen announced plans for a defense fund of € 800bn called the Rearm Europe Fund.

The Berlin Voted Proposal is that any expenditure of defense with value above 1% of Germany’s GDP without a limit of borrowing. Till now this debt ceiling fixed 0.35 PCT in GDP.

Some countries look so closely to see if this suggestion passes. Without it, then ‘Rearm Commission’s’ Rearm Europe’ Project can go to a shaky start.

The challenge now for European security is a waste. If the US has not returned to it, or at least unable to come to European defense, then what should the continent do to fill the gap?

Let’s start with numbers. According to the Kiel Institute, tracking these items, Europe only spends 0.1% of its treasures in helping to protect Ukraine, while the US spends 0.15%.

“That means,” said the Giuseppeppe by Kiel Institute

But no matter what happens now in Berlin it’s not about money.

Many of Ukraine’s most searched armory weapons come from US, such as Patriot Air Defense and Long-range artillery systists artillery systems. The Kiel Institute places the proportion of Rocket Artillery in Ukraine at 86% from the US, with 82% of howitzer items also given us.

Then there are many US intelligence questions for Kyiv, most of which come from the satellites and imaginations of Gefatial. If Washington should continue to move that, then the Ukrainian risk is the risk blinded.

If nuclear arsenal of america is removed from the equation then there is a lot of difference between 5,000-plus in the nukes in Britain and France at least one tenth. But that’s the theory to leave enough to act as a nuclear nuclear.

Arrival “usual”, ie. Arms nuclear, Western defense rulers love to say that the joint force of NATO above Russia.

Perhaps, but if there is a shining lesson out of the Ukrainian war it is “mass” things. Russia’s army can be poor quality but President Putin has made a lot of men, drones, shells and missiles of Russians who are bad and in great cost.

It is not worth coming as a surprise. Moscow puts its economy in a battle walk in the previous season. It taught an economist because the minister of its defense and returned a lot of its factories to restore many municipalities, especially drones purchases.

While many European countries have dragged their feet to raise defense that spent on the top of NATO-Mandated 2% of GDP, Russia is closer to 7%. About 40% of Russia’s national budget is spent on defense.

So Europe has a fair coverage to do whether it is despite the solitude of hitting its defense and security.

“If the vote then it is important for Germany and Europe,” said Ed Arnold, Senior Research Security at the Royal United Services Institute Institute Institute Mind Tank.

“It will set an introduction and allow others to follow … however, three years from Ukraine’s invasion The case in Germany is a reminder that additional money for defense is necessary.

“Europe requires defense leaders and security leaders who can navigate to a rapidly exaggerated euro-atlantic security. Instead of financial reform, more valuable in Europe today.”