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The German Chancellor Chancellor Friedrich Merz agreed on an agreement with the green side to put hundreds of billions into the country's defense sector and aging infrastructure.
“He will no longer have a lack of financial resources to defend freedom and peace on our continent,” Merz He said on Friday. “Germany is back.” Germany significantly contributes to the defense of freedom and peace in Europe. ”
Merz needs the support of its Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU), its probable coalition partners the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Greens to hand over its flag package with a two -thirds majority in an emergency meeting of the old parliament.
These three parties no longer say supermajorites in the new Bundestag, which was elected in February and is ready to start this month.
Last week, Merz agreed to release the strict borrowing ceiling for defense spending and to create a fund of EUR 500 billion for modernization of transport, energy, health and communication infrastructure.
At the beginning of this week, the Greens said they would stand against the package, which forced the merits to signal that it was ready for concessions.
The Greens ensured the inclusion of civil protection, information technology and intelligence agencies in a deck of defense spending and investment worth EUR 100 billion in the Green Transition.
