Parliamentary Commissioner Henning Otte has identified personnel as the Bundeswehr’s most ‛acute bottleneck,’ urging a rethink of recruitment strategies.
Spending on Germany’s armed forces is expected to reach 162 billion euros in 2029, more than triple Germany’s defence budget before the war in Ukraine.
The Russian foreign minister was speaking at a security conference in Moscow, where representatives from the U.S. embassy participated for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
