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===Reaction to Trump proposals===
===Reaction to Trump proposals===
In February 2025 German Defense Minister [[Boris Pistorius]] spoke out against US [[President Donald Trump]]'s proposal to increase defense spending to 5% of Germany's GDP in an interview with the Tagesspiegel newspaper:<ref>https://t.me/sonar_21/17045</ref>
In February 2025 German Defense Minister [[Boris Pistorius]], a member of the [[leftwing]] [[Social Democratic Party]], spoke out against US [[President Donald Trump]]'s proposal to increase defense spending to 5% of Germany's GDP in an interview with the Tagesspiegel newspaper:<ref>https://t.me/sonar_21/17045</ref>
{{Cquote|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.}}
{{Cquote|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.}}