Merz promises Germany to do ‘whatever is needed’ by defense

Friedrich Merz, which is expected to be the next chancellor in Germany, announcing a political agreement to increase hundreds of billion euros in further expenditures of defense and infrastructure.

“Because of the threats of our freedom and peace on our continent, the rule for our defense today should be ‘whatever it needs’,” he said.

Merz, whose conservatives won the German election last month, he and his possibly coalition partners from the center left to set new suggestions next week.

He told the need for the urgency of German spending on “new American government decisions”.

Merz, 69, did not explain but proclaimed his criticism of President Donald Trump’s treatment of Volidym in Ukraine in Ukraine Zelensky in the Oval Office.

Last week he said European leaders should appear “we in a position to act independently in Europe”.

In a news conference on Tuesday, along with the leaders from Social Democrats and his conservative Sister Party in Bavaria, we also know that resources for our national and alliance defense should be encouraged “.

Merz said, English, he will do “whatever should protect freedom and peace of the year in 2012 when he was president of Central Bank in Mario Draghi.

In the heart of his suggestions a special € 500bn (£ 415bn) funding to repair Germany infrastructure to provide defense investments.

By the end of the European financial crisis, Germany imposes a “debt debt” or Debt debt, Limit budget deficit to 0.35% to national economic output (GDP) at normal times.

The new defense proposal is recommended that “necessarily expenditures the defense” above 1% of GDP should be free from debt development restrictions, with no limit.

Although German provides additional assistance to Ukraine than any other European country, its military is unfamiliar.

Olaf Socolz’s Social Democrat-LED Government has set up a 100BN fund after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but most of which are allocated.

Germany must find an additional € 30bn a year to meet the current target of NATO with 2% of the GDP of defense, and security experts believe its targets are required to raise its target near 3%.

Scholz for meeting Friedrich Merz and Social Democrat leading Wednesday’s eve of an EU Summit offered in Ukraine and European Defense. His government fell late last year because three coalition parties do not agree to repeat debt restrictions.

To participate in the Constitution of Germany, or basic law, and any change will require a majority of Parliament ancestors, not a broad seats held by the AFD and the left party.

However, the new parliament does not gather until late March and this scale is initially preceded in the first Parliament.

Boris Pistorius, the Social Democrat Defense Minister of Government, said spending plans are a “great, important step” if they are far from a coalition roof. Ten days after Germany’s election, the parties participated in exploration speeches, which continued Thursday.

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Social Democrat leaders Lars Klingbeil, standing beside Merz on Tuesday, gives detail to the plan to invest in German infrastructure. “

€ 500bn loans go to a fund to cover the healing roads, railways and other critical infrastructures; € 100bn of the money goes to the 16 federal states in Germany, with a debt brake fix to allow states to replace a small loan.