Despite Trump's threat: Pistorius rejects new 300 billion package for the Bundeswehr. Boris Pistorius would rather see the defense budget increase in the regular federal budget instead of another special fund.
For the first time in three decades, Germany has reported to NATO planned defense spending amounting to two percent of gross domestic product. The federal government submitted an amount for the current year that, when converted into comparative figures from the defense alliance, corresponds to a sum of 73.41 billion dollars. In absolute terms, this is a record for Germany.