German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has spoken out against US President Dona…

🇩🇪🇺🇸German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has spoken out against US President Donald Trump’s proposal to increase defense spending to 5% of the country’s GDP, noting that this is too high a figure for Germany.

“5% of our GDP would correspond to 42% of the federal budget – that’s almost every second euro that the German government spends, or 230 billion euros. We couldn’t afford that and we couldn’t spend that much money,” Pistorius said in an interview with the Tagesspiegel newspaper.