The entire campaign for this month’s federal election is a repulsive spectacle. All the parties in the Bundestag (parliament) ...

Under Chancellor Olaf Scholz's centre-left government, Germany has ramped up military spending ... of the 2025 federal budget," Kukies added. This is because even if the German government now ...

European and German fiscal rules would need to be reformed if higher defence spending was agreed among European partners, ...

Germany's constitution stipulates that the state should only spend as much as it collects. But as the budget deficit grows, ...

So how much money will the Bundeswehr actually require in the coming years? In 2024, Germany's defense budget was just under €52 billion. Around €20 billion was added to that from the special fund.

The Budget Committee of the German Parliament has called on Finance Minister Jörg Kukies to approve an additional €3 billion in military assistance for Ukraine. The decision has been supported ...

According to a report by the Bundeswehrverband (German Armed Forces Association ... has spoken in favour of increasing the regular military budget to 3.5 percent of GDP, which would correspond ...

Sahra Wagenknecht, a veteran of the German radical left who last year founded what she calls a “leftwing conservative” party, said that altering the “debt brake” to increase military ...

New momentum for EU defence bonds as Germany’s Merz signals openness ...

About a thousand more German military and civilian contractors will ... according to a confidential draft budget seen by Reuters in June. However, budget infighting within Germany's fractious ...