Correspondent in Berlin
On February 27, 2022, three days after the start of the war, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced to the Bundestag a "
change of era
" and the granting of 100 billion euros to the Bundeswehr.
A year after this historic speech, Parliament's rapporteur for the Bundeswehr, Eva Högl described the material situation of the troops:
"pitiful
" and worse than the previous year.
“
The Bundeswehr lacks everything and it has even less
,” asserted the SPD MP in her annual report published on Tuesday.
Between bureaucratic negligence and underfunding, the evils are known.
This year, the focus is on the Klotzberg barracks, which houses the 345th Artillery Training Battalion.
Forty years after the start of the renovation work, retaining walls threatened with collapse are reinforced with sandbags.
Started in 2015, the upgrading of wastewater pipes should not be completed before 2027. A situation that is all the more "
unacceptable
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