“It shouldn’t mean: armament or pension’: Scholz’s plans threaten the next traffic light crash. The Greens and the SPD fear this would be an attack on the welfare state.
For the first time in decades, Germany actually met the two percent target for arms spending agreed upon in NATO. However, this was also possible thanks to the special fund for the Bundeswehr, which Chancellor Olaf ScholZ announced after his famous “turning point” speech.