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A provision would exempt defence spending above 1 per cent of GDP from the debt brake rules, allowing Germany to boost spending on its armed forces by an unlimited amount at a time when Europe faces the prospect of losing US guarantees that have underpinned its security since Donald Trump began his second presidential term.
The future coalition partners will introduce another constitutional amendment to set up a €500bn fund for infrastructure, which would run over 10 years. They are also planning to loosen debt rules for states.
It must be bitter especially for the greens to support this debt-spending on infrastructure that they were not allowed to do (by FDP and CDU) while in government, so will they just vote it through quickly now?
Of course the Greens will just vote for it because it’s the right thing to do for the country, no matter who does it. And as always they will be punished by the voters for it, who love to reward those conservative liars.
This blatantly undemocratic farce of forcing it though the outgoing parliament that has no legitimacy left deserves punishment by the voters. But sadly this kind of disregard of the democratic process will mainly strengthen the AfD.