New German defence chief pledges to speed up race to Nato 2pc spending target
New recruits march on the parade ground during a swearing-in ceremony of German Bundeswehr soldiers at the German Defence Ministry in Berlin, on July 20, 2019 - AFP/ Germany’s new defence minister has picked an early fight inside the country’s troubled coalition, pledging to beef up military spending against the will of junior partners the Social Democrats. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer will make it a priority to allocate a budget equivalent to 2 percent of the German economy to the Bundeswehr, the 56-year-old told the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
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