{"id":530451,"date":"2025-10-27T04:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/530451\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T04:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:27:16","slug":"germanys-new-e377b-military-wish-list-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/530451\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s new \u20ac377B military wish list \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taken together, it&#8217;s a comprehensive roadmap for Germany\u2019s long-overdue defense overhaul, anchored firmly in domestic industry. <\/p>\n<p>Politically, the timing tracks with Merz\u2019s shift to a new financing model. Since the spring, Berlin has moved to carve out defense from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-unveils-e500-billion-defense-plan-as-security-threats-mount\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Germany\u2019s constitutional debt brake<\/a>, allowing sustained multiyear spending beyond the nearly exhausted \u20ac100 billion special fund set up under former Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Items on the list will eventually appear, in smaller tranches, when they\u2019re mature enough for a parliamentary budget committee vote. All procurements valued over \u20ac25 million need the committee\u2019s sign-off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hundreds of billions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The documents show that the Bundeswehr wants to launch about 320 new weapons and equipment projects over the next year&#8217;s budget cycle. Of those, 178 have a listed contractor. The rest remain \u201cstill open,\u201d showing that much of the Bundeswehr\u2019s modernization plan is still on the drawing board.<\/p>\n<p>German companies dominate the identifiable tenders with around 160 projects, worth about \u20ac182 billion, tied to domestic firms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rheinmetall is by far the biggest winner. The D\u00fcsseldorf-based group and its affiliated ventures appear in 53 separate planning lines worth more than \u20ac88 billion. Around \u20ac32 billion would flow directly to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/list\/politico-28-class-of-2025\/armin-papperger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rheinmetall<\/a>, while another \u20ac56 billion is linked to subsidiaries and joint ventures, such as the Puma and Boxer fighting vehicle programs run with KNDS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taken together, it&#8217;s a comprehensive roadmap for Germany\u2019s long-overdue defense overhaul, anchored firmly in domestic industry. Politically, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2594,7668,473,2595,2000,7704,299,1945,1824,808,2597,98281,2598,54490,111629,7061,413,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-530451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-boris-pistorius","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-drones","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-eu-us-military-ties","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-friedrich-merz","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-maritime","18":"tag-military","19":"tag-military-aviation","20":"tag-missiles","21":"tag-multinational-defense-programs","22":"tag-naval-vessels","23":"tag-procurement","24":"tag-space","25":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115444242413962514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530451","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=530451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}