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"This is complete madness"! Germany firmly opposes Trump's request: We are not in the bargain

2025-01-08 19:17:34Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"This is complete madness"! Germany firmly opposes Trump's
Germany firmly rejects Trump's demand: We are not in a bargain

Five percent of gross domestic product for defense? Trump's demand is clearly rejected by all parties in Germany.

Even before he officially took office, Donald Trump is causing a stir. With his call for NATO countries to spend five percent of their gross domestic product on defense in the future, he has provoked negative reactions from many parties in Germany.

The chairman of the Bundestag's defence committee, Marcus Faber (FDP), sees the demand for a five percent contribution as too high. In an interview with Germany's editorial network (RND), he said that "the 32 NATO countries will have to agree on a new common minimum beyond the two percent target." But he expects an increase of more than three percent - and this should be decided by consensus, Faber stressed.

"This is complete madness"

Meanwhile, SPD foreign policy chief Ralf Stegner flatly rejected Trump's demands. "This is complete madness. We don't need more weapons in the world, we need fewer," he told the news portal Politico.

German liberal MEP Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP) also considers Trump's demand for a five percent target to be excessive. "We must not let every statement by Trump derail us. We are not in a bargain here," the FDP politician told the RND network. However, according to the MEP, the US rightly expects NATO members to provide more money for their own defense - and to take responsibility for the alliance's joint defense.

"Given Germany's geographical location and economic potential and size, this is right, as we have been hiding behind the US for decades in the hope that we can rely on them and that they will be responsible for our security."

Left-wing German politician and leader of the Alliance of her name, Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), called for a change in foreign policy towards the US. “It is no wonder that Trump is now calling for five percent spending on defence,” she also told Politico magazine. Now is the time to end “vassal loyalty to the US.” Germany needs “independence instead of subservience” and “a significant improvement in Franco-German relations.”

The debate on protection also within the framework of the election campaign

The debate over the appropriate level of the defense budget has gained momentum, despite Trump's demands. Federal Minister of Economics and the Green Party's leading candidate for chancellor, Robert Habeck, accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz of having cut the Bundeswehr budget during the time of the grand coalition, the CDU and SPD, then under Chancellor Merkel.

"The special fund with which we started working against major problems will no longer be available next year. "So we have to do more in the coming years to protect the peace and security of this country," Habeck told Stern magazine. Habeck said he would finance the massive planned defense spending through billions in new loans. The debt brake "should not decide how safe Germany is," Habeck continued.

Defense spending by NATO countries has been a central point of contention since Trump's first term. At the time, the Republican threatened to withdraw the United States from the military alliance if partner countries did not meet their obligation to invest at least two percent of GDP in defense./ DW


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