Germany to Smooth Military Procurement in Massive Spending Push

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s cabinet approved a law designed to accelerate military planning and procurement, part of the ruling coalition’s effort to swiftly transform the Bundeswehr into Europe’s strongest conventional army.

Merz’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc and his Social Democrat partners have effectively suspended rules limiting new borrowing to fund defense outlays and pledged to meet NATO’s revised spending goal of 5% of gross domestic product on the military.