While it usefully clarifies Germany’s perceptions and goals on national security, the new strategy is less clear about when and how it will achieve them
The 76-page document, meant to bring coherence and a sense of purpose across the breadth of government, does not make for exciting reading. Predictably, it stresses Germany’s deep commitment to the European Union and to, as well as relationships with key partners such as America and France. Understandably, it fingers Russia as “the most serious threat to peace and security in the Euro-Atlantic area”.
At the press conference that accompanied the policy document’s launch Christian Lindner, the finance minister, carefully explained that for at least the next few years the 2% goal would be made up not from the regular budget but via top-ups from a temporary €100bn special fund. In other words, it will be up to some future government to commit to permanently bolster Germany’s shrunken armed forces.
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