{"id":22940,"date":"2026-05-25T06:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/22940\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:04:05","slug":"the-3-bottlenecks-complicating-germanys-rearmament-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/22940\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3 bottlenecks complicating Germany\u2019s rearmament \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even the BAAINBw’s president, Annette Lehnigk-Emden, sees the need for speed. In an interview with the German civil service magazine dbb<\/a>, she said her office had thrown \u201cabout 80 of around 160 procedural rules overboard,\u201d adding: \u201cTime is now the guiding factor.\u201d<\/p>\n

That’s what Pistorius hopes to unlock with Wednesday’s reform. But outside watchdogs say the issues won’t be easy to fix.<\/p>\n

Kay Scheller, the president of Germany\u2019s federal audit office, told Bild<\/a> that Bundeswehr procurement had become a \u201csystem of organized irresponsibility,\u201d arguing that there is a culture of ducking responsibility rather than making fast decisions.<\/p>\n

\"\"German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, second from left, is pictured with Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, center, at the handover of vehicles to regional civil defense agencies, in Berlin on May 20, 2026. | Maryam Majd\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

In his annual report<\/a>, Henning Otte, the Bundestag\u2019s parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces, described the procurement regulations as \u201cextremely complex.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dilemma is that Germany cannot simply rip out the safeguards that make procurement slow. Those controls exist to protect soldiers, ensure value for taxpayers and preserve parliament\u2019s authority over military spending.<\/p>\n

Christoph Schmid, the Social Democrats\u2019 top defense lawmaker, cautioned against blaming bureaucracy alone. \u201cThere is also a responsibility of the companies to actually deliver what they have promised,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even the BAAINBw’s president, Annette Lehnigk-Emden, sees the need for speed. In an interview with the German civil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2696,420,614,479,393,5,619,423,424,628,484,425],"class_list":["post-22940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-angela-merkel","tag-defense","tag-defense-budgets","tag-donald-trump","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany","tag-military","tag-munitions","tag-procurement","tag-supply-chains","tag-war-in-ukraine","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}