{"id":599617,"date":"2025-11-28T17:18:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599617\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:18:40","slug":"germany-approves-2026-budget-with-e11-5bn-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599617\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany approves 2026 budget with \u20ac11.5bn for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"\" class=\"button\" onclick=\"fb_share('https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/11\/28\/8009443\/'); return false;\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><br \/>\n    <a href=\"\" class=\"button\" onclick=\"tw_share('https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/11\/28\/8009443\/', 'Germany approves 2026 budget with \u20ac11.5bn for Ukraine'); return false;\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><br \/>\n    <a href=\"\" class=\"button\" onclick=\"tg_share('https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/11\/28\/8009443\/', 'Germany approves 2026 budget with \u20ac11.5bn for Ukraine'); return false;\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><br \/>\n    <a href=\"\" class=\"copy_button\" onclick=\"return false;\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u041f\u043e\u0441\u0438\u043b\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044f \u0441\u043a\u043e\u043f\u0456\u0439\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043e<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, approved the federal budget for 2026 on 28 November.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurointegration.com.ua\/news\/2025\/11\/28\/7225933\/\" rel=\"noopener\">European Pravda<\/a>; German newspaper <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/deutschland\/bundestag-beschliesst-haushalt-fuer-2026-a-f3a27909-f6b7-454d-b196-8f7ac449c044\" rel=\"noopener\">Der Spiegel<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Details:<\/strong> In total, German lawmakers approved expenditure of \u20ac524.5 billion for Chancellor Friedrich Merz&#8217;s government \u2013 \u20ac21.5 billion more than in 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTo finance expenditure in the core budget alone, the government plans to take on nearly \u20ac98 billion in debt. Additionally, there are loans from special funds for the Bundeswehr \u2013 Germany&#8217;s armed forces \u2013 and infrastructure.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMore than one-third of the budget is allocated to labour and social spending. Meanwhile, defence expenditure will rise to around \u20ac108 billion \u2013 the highest level since the end of the Cold War.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tUkraine will receive \u20ac11.5 billion from the approved budget for artillery, drones, armoured vehicles and other equipment. According to the German Federal Ministry of Defence, this is the largest amount provided since the start of Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn September, the Bundestag approved the 2025 budget \u2013 a decision that had been delayed due to early parliamentary elections.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u041f\u043e\u0441\u0438\u043b\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044f \u0441\u043a\u043e\u043f\u0456\u0439\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043e The Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, approved the federal budget for 2026 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-599617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115628467986622659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599617","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=599617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}