August 16, 2023

BERLIN — So much for Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende. 

The German government on Wednesday stepped back at the last minute from making a legal commitment to meeting NATO’s target of spending 2 percent of GDP on defense on an annual basis, according to Reuters and German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. 

A government official told the news agency that a clause pledging to meet the target was deleted at short notice from Finance Minister Christian Lindner’s draft of a new budget financing law, just before the Cabinet passed it to the parliament.

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https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-defense-change-of-plan-nato-spending/