{"id":185376,"date":"2022-02-28T00:37:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T19:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=185376"},"modified":"2022-02-28T00:37:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T19:07:50","slug":"germany-commits-100-billion-euros-to-new-armed-forces-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/germany-commits-100-billion-euros-to-new-armed-forces-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany commits 100 billion euros to new armed forces fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BERLIN (AP) \u2014 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday that Germany is committing 100 billion euros to a special fund for its armed forces, raising its defense spending above 2 percent of GDP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s clear we need to invest significantly more in the security of our country, in order to protect our freedom and our democracy,\u201d Scholz told a special session of the Bundestag in Berlin Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The move is a significant one for Germany, which has come under criticism from the United States and other NATO allies for not investing adequately in its defense budget.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scholz\u2019s announcement, which came during a special session of Germany\u2019s Bundestag Sunday morning, was the latest in a series of major shifts in German defense and security policy this weekend in response to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday evening, the German government announced it would be sending weapons and other supplies directly to Ukraine, which is fighting to keep Russia from invading its capital city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday that Germany is committing 100 billion euros to a special fund for its armed forces, raising its defense spending above 2 percent of GDP. \u201cIt\u2019s clear we need to invest significantly more in the security of our country, in order to protect our freedom and our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-185376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}