Politico: Germany U-turns on commitment to meet NATO spending target annually
Pledge was deleted at short notice from a new draft law, according to media reports.
BERLIN — So much for Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende. The German government on Wednesday stepped back at the last minute from making a legal commitment to meeting NATO’s target of spending 2 percent of GDP on defense on an annual basis, according to Reuters and German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
A government official told the news agency that a clause pledging to meet the target was deleted at short notice from Finance Minister Christian Lindner’s draft of a new budget financing law, just before the Cabinet passed it to the parliament.
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Update: Germany walks back plan to meet NATO spending target on annual basis (Reuters)
WNU Editor: So much for German promises to keep their pledges.
3 comments:
Well, we did send them into a recession by nuking their economy when we destroyed the Nordstream Pipeline. So kind of understandable.
Why waste their money? US taxpayers are more than happy to indefinitely pay to defend Europe
Guten Morgen allerseits!
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