Friedrich Merz says that without the increase in defense spending in Germany, NATO would have dissolved latest | WORLD – El diario andino
The German Chancellor, Friedrich Merzsaid Wednesday that, without the constitutional reform that made possible an exponential increase in defense spending in Germany and without the disposition of the other allies to also increase their own, NATO would probably have been dissolved right at a time when Russian aggression against Ukraine continues and there is a real threat to Europe.
«I want to make it very clear, and this was clear at the NATO Summit (in The Hague), that if we had not done this and if we had not been willing to spend more on our defense, if we had paid attention to the AFD and the left, probably the NATO would have broken in the 70th year of our belonging to the organization,» said Merz in his first general debate as the chancellor of Germany.
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The conservative politic Merz had begun to break his electoral promises since during the campaign he had opposed a relaxation of the so -called debt brake, according to which the deficit cannot exceed 0.35 % of the gross domestic product (GDP).
The reform, with the Votes of the Government Parties -The Cristianodemocrata Union (CDU) of Merzthe Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD)- and for the Greens, releases from that mandate any defense spending that exceeds 1.0 % of GDP.
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In his speech Merz He stressed that the work of the current government coalition is marked by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, before what sarcastic interpellations from AFD deputies were heard.
«That reaction of you portrays you,» he said Merz.
«Last night there was the most massive Russian attack in three and a half years, including against civil objectives, and you, Mrs. Weidel, have not said anything about it in your speech,» the chancellor recriminated to the ultra -right -wing collide.
«And I would like to explain it a little more clearly: the media of diplomacy are exhausted when a criminal regime uses military force to openly question the right of an entire country to exist and it is proposed to destroy the political order of freedom of the entire European continent,» he snapped at Weidel, whose party advocates dialogue with Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and for suspending military aid to Ukraine.
«The federal government I run will do everything in your hand to prevent this from happening,» he said Merz besides.
