Germany moves to amend constitution to get on war footing

Germany moves to amend constitution to get on war footing

Germany’s Bundestag parliament has voted to pass a constitutional amendment that would authorize increases in defense, infrastructure, and some foreign aid spending, financed through increased borrowing. "The decision we are taking today... can be nothing less than the first major step towards a new European defense community,” said likely incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen commented that the vote “s…

Germany’s lower house approves constitutional changes for massive defense spending

Lawmakers have approved amendments allowing incoming coalition government to borrow hundreds of billions of euros to acquire new weapons, enhance infrastructure - Anadolu Ajansı

Germany amends constitution to borrow more for war with Russia

For Russia, such a development sounds undeniably threatening, signaling Germany's return to military power – a status it last held during Hitler's era

Oliver Dörre, head of the armaments group Hensoldt, calls for a fundamentally new procurement system after the German Bundestag agreement for significantly more defence expenditures. Germany and Europe should focus on the USA and increasingly rely on the local procurement of armaments, said Dörre on Tuesday evening at the Frankfurt Business Press Club ICFW. "We need a buy-European and a buy-German strategy". "The Balts feel the breath of Putin" …

The future Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, plans to invest a lot of money in the defense industry - and to do this, he is already changing the country's Constitution. This is a pan-European trend: almost all countries are developing plans for the development of their defense and industrial complexes, and the European Union is loosening regulations for them and preparing targeted loan programs. One of the main beneficiaries of this process…

With the decisions of Tuesday, the Bundestag is also lifting the debt brake in Schleswig-Holstein. FDP head of state Christopher Vogt criticises Berlin – and the Prime Minister Daniel Günther.