German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition government has agreed in principle to double the country’s military aid to Ukraine next year to 8 billion euros, a political source in Berlin said on Sunday.
If approved by Parliament, where Scholz’s parties hold a majority, the increase would bring Germany’s defense spending to 2.1% of its target gross domestic product, in addition to the 2% pledged by all members of the Treaty Organization. North Atlantic, the source added.
Parliamentarians from the Social Democrats, the Free Democrats and the Green party agreed to increase negotiations on the proposed 2024 federal budget ahead of a formal meeting of the budget committee of the Bundestag – or lower house of Parliament – ​​on Thursday (16 ), said the source.
Bloomberg News first reported the news on Saturday (11), citing people familiar with the matter.
A spokesman for the German Defense Ministry said the Bundestag committee had not yet concluded negotiations and declined to comment further.
Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper also said the committee must approve the additional 4 billion euros.
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