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45% Germans for 5% of GDP on defence

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius looks out of the turret of a Leopard 2A6 during a presentation | File Photo: Federico Gambarini/dpa

Some 45 percent of German respondents favour spending 5 percent of GDP on defence that compared to 37 percent who oppose it, with 18 percent saying they don’t know, a poll from YouGov conducted for the Munich-based newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung showed.

Scholz rejects Ukrainian use of German weapons on Russian territory

26 May 2024, Berlin: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) speaks at the Democracy Festival to mark the 75th anniversary of the Basic Law in Germany | Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is resisting a possible Western expansion in military backing for Ukraine, saying on Sunday he does not favour allowing Kiev to use German weapons to hit targets in Russia as German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Saturday in Italy the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized democracies still have “a lot of work to do” on using interest generated from frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine.