{"id":131491,"date":"2025-05-25T20:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T20:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/131491\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T20:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T20:12:13","slug":"germanys-pistorius-signals-openness-to-5-percent-defense-spending-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/131491\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Pistorius signals openness to 5 percent defense spending \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pistorius also said Germany &#8220;won\u2019t be able to&#8221; meet NATO capability goals with a defense budget of 3 percent of GDP, opening the door to a higher spending level if required.<\/p>\n<p>His comments follow remarks by Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul last Thursday, in which he backed U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s push for NATO members to <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/198712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raise defense spending to 5 percent of GDP<\/a> from the existing 2 percent target.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will follow him in this respect,\u201d Wadephul said in Antalya, Turkey after a NATO foreign ministers\u2019 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Friedrich Merz has pledged to make the Bundeswehr the strongest conventional army in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>EU defense ministers meeting in Brussels Tuesday are expected to discuss continued military support for Ukraine and ways to strengthen European defense capabilities, including joint procurement and industrial ramp-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pistorius also said Germany &#8220;won\u2019t be able to&#8221; meet NATO capability goals with a defense budget of 3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[7668,473,7057,32,2000,299,7058,1945,1824,2597,2821,7061,657,49,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-131491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-boris-pistorius","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-defense-budgets","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european-defense","15":"tag-friedrich-merz","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-military","18":"tag-nato","19":"tag-procurement","20":"tag-ukraine","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114570300311574152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}