Berlin (dpa-AfX)-With its own proposal to increase defense spending, the Green Group wants to increase the pressure on the Union and SPD. The black and red draft for a financial package is not an alternative because the concept of defense spending there is too closely, according to a draft law that the faction has passed. This does not lead to “the pressing questions in the area of total defense and security policy tasks are solved”.
So the Greens want to ensure that not only the Bundeswehr benefits from more money. “The strengthening of defense ability, also in systems of collective security, the expansion of intelligence agencies, the support of international law assistance, abroad in the event of crisis, strengthening international organizations for peacekeeping and the protection of the civilian systems and the protection of the civilian systems, also include a comprehensive, broad and integrated security concept.”
Defense expenses above 1.5 percent of gross domestic product want to take out the Greens from the debt brake. The Union and SPD want to draw this limit at 1 percent. The Greens therefore want to contest a higher proportion of defense spending from the normal budget ./hrz/dp/ngu