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The big problem of rethinking Germany is not money

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The Times sign forced Germany to break the seal of fiscal orthodoxy. The new world, which arose as a result of accelerated globalization, pandemia and war in Ukraine, prompted Berlin to announce unprecedented state expenses for defense and infrastructure. In the case of the first departure, the efforts will be titanic to conclude that the Russian threat may increase, but the United States will not always be there to help. A huge video has already begun, and optimism made its way. However Bottle necks The fact that they were called a big problem for this reserves (the absence of troops in the German army, a dilemma when buying more weapons in the United States, a lack of specialized workers), another one is added, which is more and more: the more: more: more: more: more: more: more: more: more: more: more: more bureaucracyField

The necessary impulse of the answer to big problems that the decade has caused (the health and economic crisis for Covid, the energy crisis from the Russian invasion of Ukraine) confirmed one of the great German problems, which makes it a recurrent and very current subject in the last federal elections: bureaucratic obstacles. Until now, these complaints came from a business sector and were considered ballast while maintaining large German corporations, which will look for more funds throughout the Atlantic. However, this “eternal” administrative space in the implementation of any procedure threatens enormous investments in defense.

In the report Financial times Put two Especially showing examples How bureaucracy detained any advance management or defense. According to the requests of journalists of the British financial environment, this excessive bureaucracy caused a ruined delay in acquisition matters. Before it took Seven years to choose a new rifle The main attack and More than ten years to purchase a hull for pilots helicopter.

A huge Bundeswehr purchasing office in Coblenza, in which 11,800 employees worked, is known in the past that it is meticulously to follow the national norms and rules of the EU and prepare complex customs requirements. The Ministry of Finance in Berlin was another obstacle to quick purchases, Military officials without experience discussed how many submarines he needed The German fleet really also reports FeetField

German military strategists are currently observed in a situation of investing tens of billions in air defense systems, weapons with long robbers, armored vehicles and cyberpress to fulfill their new obligations to NATO. They also want to develop satellite systems to strengthen the capabilities of European intelligence, observation and recognition, given the concern for the dependence of Washington.

A Years of “forgotten” Around the German armed forces (Bundestor), in the world in which ‘Dividend of la Paz’They weigh now, as you can see in the aforementioned absence of personnel in the troops. It is well known that after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the end of the Cold War, Germany significantly reduced defense costs. After averaging about 3% of GDP from 1970 to 1989, defense expenses were sharply reduced in the 1990s and remained about 1.3% in the 2000s and 2010, remaining below the 2% purpose established by NATO in 2014.

Now the money is not a problemSince the new coalition government, consisting of two system parties in Germany (conservatives and social democrats), inflicted an insignificant amount 650,000 million euros over the next five yearsThe Berlin field announced that Germany’s protective budget will reach an impressive indicator of 162,000 million euros by 2029, including the support of Ukraine, which is an increase of 70% compared to this year.

Increased by the threat of President Donald Trump to abandon the security of the United States from the continent, European countries agreed to invest more in their own armies. Plans lead to Germany to achieve a new NATO goal for 3.5% of its GDP in the basic defense by 2029, six years before the deadline recently agreed by the Western military alliance.

How to spend so much money

He The main challenge That’s right now be able to spend this money and his Minister of Defense, popular in polls Boris Pistorius He knows: “All this suggests that industrial production capacities can now increase quickly, rise and adapt to our needs and orders.” Social Democrat is repeated at the head of the ministry, in which he was already during the convulsive legislative body of Olaf Sholts and Trilateral Government (Social Democrats, Green and Liberals). His efforts to update the army and his clarity in his public statements since Russia invaded Ukraine, they gave Pistorius Fustust in polls, which gives possible that now, despite the fact that the leadership of the new government falls on CDU/CSU conservatives, it is now allowed to save the portfolio right now.

Under the leadership of Pistorius, Germany nominated something in the Bundeswehr reform after the war in Ukraine, especially thanks to a special fund of 100,000 million euros to arm the army, which put forward a tripartite government. When this first fund was approved, the army leader warned that his troops were “almost empty -handed.”

In Germany, Pistorius has already achieved some success in changing culture, speaking for speed, and not what he calls “golden decisions”. Berlin used the aforementioned fund in the amount of 100,000 million euros to order a series of articles with large prices, such as F-35 combat aircraft, Chinook helicopter and 3 to Israel. However, disappointment remains. “Sometimes, Just write a contract that can take a year the whole, ”says a high -ranking official FeetField

Even after the products are answered, suppliers can take them for delivery from the huge narrow places of the industry. “When you are asking for the Patriot air defense system, they tell you: thanks for your order, you will receive it in 2028,” admits the same high -ranking official in relation to the US air defense system.

The threat goes on. Analysts warn of dangers Bad purchase solutions And Spend in vain products, as well as speculation at manufacturers in the midst of growing demand. “The faster we need to get money, the more risk to switch to simpler, more expensive and potentially outdated technologies,” Gentram Wolf, senior member of the Bruegel economic expert group, with headquarters in Brussels.

Not all analytical houses see the panorama so negative. From the capital economy, his strategist Francis Palmas looks unlikely that administrative restrictions are filled on the path of an ambitious German coup, at least in the coming years: “Restoring the cost of defense from Zeitenwende (The historical point of excess after the invasion of Ukraine) suggests that Administrative restrictions or container And they do not affect now“The analyst gives as an example an increase in expenses by 0.5% in 2024, which meant noticeable acceleration in relation to previous years.

“Germany was also able to quickly increase orders for military materials, partly due to close cooperation in the Bundestag between the matches of the old coalition of the traffic light and the CDU, and then in the opposition. The entire initial defense fund of 100,000 million euros is already impaired in contracts, and most of it will be delivered, and, therefore, this will be unfulfilled, which can be again entering the years that may occur in the defense years. CDU and SPD agreed to approve reforms to accelerate acquisitions The military, “Palmas is optimistic.”

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