Defense budget: Bundeswehr Association: 100 billion must be fully equipped

Defense budget: Bundeswehr Association: 100 billion must be fully equipped

The Bundeswehr is to receive 100 billion euros. According to the Bundeswehr Association, the money should be spent “only for modernization and procurement measures”.

The Bundeswehr Association insists that the planned special fund of 100 billion euros for the armed forces be fully invested in equipment.

“We are well positioned with the 100 billion,” said association leader André Wüstner in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin”. It is important that all the money is “actually only spent on modernization and procurement measures” and not on spare parts or to finance increased salaries. It’s about “filling in the known gaps”.

Wüstner described recruiting personnel for the Bundeswehr as a quantitative and qualitative challenge. “But that is also a question of the attractiveness of the service.” In addition to material issues, it is always about competitiveness on the labor market. Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) will have to initiate one or the other legislative process. For example, it is about improving the transition to the economy after leaving the Bundeswehr.

Source: Stern

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