Habeck meets with the defense industry and is presented with a wish list. At Germany alone, defense industry employs around 136,000 people and generates 30 billion euros per year.
The industry relies on export markets, therefore Habeck's State Secretary Sven Giegold acknowledges that Germany doesn’t need that much money to boost production again and to support Ukraine, for example. “It must be possible to create a certain dynamic somehow,” he says. The federal government has concluded long-term framework agreements for Iris-T guided missiles or Leopard 2 main battle tanks.