US EditionGermany’s parliament approves €50 billion defense spending package
The package funds 30 major projects including vehicles, missiles, and satellite systems to modernize the Bundeswehr amid rising security concerns, totaling nearly €83 billion approved in 2025.
- German lawmakers approved a roughly 50 billion euro procurement package on Wednesday, including missiles, artillery, torpedoes, armoured vehicles and satellite systems.
- Earlier this year, Berlin set a core defence spending target of 3.5 percent of GDP by 2029, and Chancellor Friedrich Merz exempted defence spending from strict debt rules to free funds.
- The package unusually covers uniforms and equipment for 460,000 troops and protective gear for 80,000 civilian employees, while lawmakers this month backed a scheme to boost troop numbers.
- Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said the government will manage the investments carefully and conscientiously, and the defence ministry framed the procurements as a signal to NATO and partners that Germany is leading the way.
- After Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Germany moved away from its pacifist tradition and raised spending targets for the coming years, with officials warning of possible mandatory military service if volunteers fall short.
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Germany to spend almost $60 billion in latest military funding package
BERLIN — Germany’s parliamentary budget committee approved 30 major defense procurement projects worth nearly €50 billion ($59 billion) on Wednesday, bringing the country’s 2025 total to a record 103 major procurement projects for €83 billion ($97.5 billion).The approvals cap three years of unprecedented defense spending that outpace the previous eight years combined.“We are serious when we say that we are equipping our Bundeswehr to be powerf…
The German military has been authorized to procure new weapons worth 50 billion euros ($57.8 billion) as a massive modernization effort continues. The new funds were approved by the Budget Committee in Berlin on Wednesday and will be used to buy personal protective equipment and clothing for soldiers, foreign media write, reports Telegrafi. In addition, about 4 billion euros will be allocated for the expansion of the Arrow 3 missile defense syst…
The new verb, a reminder to the country, refers to the "security" of the national territory and the promotion of "peace in Europe" as well as the conventional army "most powerful of Europe" facing the Russian threat.
German lawmakers approved military procurement worth around 50 billion euros on Wednesday.
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