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Today, Europe faces an “aggressive Russia” as well as an “unpredictable United States of America,” said the future chancellor.
Friedrich Merz, Germany’s future chancellor, said his proposed huge increase in defence spending was necessary because of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “aggressive war against Europe”.
“This is a war against Europe, not just a war against Ukraine’s territorial integrity,” Merz told parliament before the vote on the plans, which also include huge new funding for infrastructure, AFP reported.
Merz said Russia’s aggression included cyberattacks and espionage, arson and contract killings, as well as disinformation campaigns that “try to divide and marginalise the European Union”.
Today, Europe faces an “aggressive Russia” as well as an “unpredictable United States of America,” said the future chancellor, whose conservative CDU/CSU bloc won last month’s parliamentary elections.
Merz’s plans call for excluding defence spending from the country’s strict debt rules when it exceeds one per cent of GDP and creating a €500 billion fund for infrastructure investment over 12 years.
His bloc is hoping to push the measure through the Bundestag at a time when US President Donald Trump’s rapprochement with Russia and hostility towards Ukraine have rattled Europe and cast doubt on the future strength of transatlantic ties.
“Let me be clear: I am in favour of doing everything we can to maintain transatlantic cooperation,” Merz said.
“I think it is indispensable, but now we have to do our homework in Europe. We have to become stronger. We have to guarantee our own security. This is our responsibility. Germany has to play a leading role in this respect and I think we have to be ready to take this leadership responsibility,” he added.
Merz stressed that the planned increase in spending on the armed forces, expected to amount to hundreds of billions of euros in the coming years, is “nothing less than the first major step towards a new European defence community”.
He said this union would include “countries that are not members of the European Union but are very interested in building this common European defence together with us, such as the UK and Norway”.
Merz said new defence contracts should be awarded to European manufacturers “whenever possible”.
“We need to rebuild our defence capabilities,” he announced, adding that this should be done with “automated systems, with independent European satellite surveillance, with armed drones and with very advanced defence systems” ordered from companies on the continent. | BGNES
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