The German federal government’s current budget planning does not provide for the allocation of new funds to support Ukraine, and the opposition is talking about freezing financial and, consequently, military support for Kyiv.
  • farsinuce@feddit.dk
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    3 months ago

    Article context: instead of using the German budget, officials are exploring the possibility of using frozen Russian assets for future aid. So Germany isn’t cutting off all aid to Ukraine, as the title might induce. Regardless, this is understandably causing internal debate.

    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      By who? The budget would mean as much money for Ukraine in 2025 as Poland or France have send so far in total. That is not including EU contributions. Also there is about 3billion worth in Russian money, which goes to Ukraine from Germany. Makes the right ones pay.

  • CJOtheReal@ani.social
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    3 months ago

    The budget is without such things, the Ukraine aid probability gets financed over different positions or special budgets because Germany has a constitutional break on making debt. And tbh, we don’t have enough money for our own stuff right now.

    Edit: apparently the plan is to finance the weapons with frozen Russian assets, so even better.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    The reason for this is the austerity measures taken by the Chancellery and the Ministry of Finance. Finance Minister Christian Lindner conveyed the request in a letter to Defence Minister Boris Pistorius on 5 August.

    Ukraine: another victim of austerity 😩

  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    Pravda once again with their misleading garbage disinformation articles. That site should be banned.

  • golli@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    My two cents as a random German:

    • regardless how this actually turns out to affect things in the end, it is again a PR nightmare. Seems like we are true masters in this regard. Despite imo supporting Ukraine pretty substantially so far, the vast majority controversies like these seem to be about our involvement. Amd at least for this year there is a decent pipeline of new stuff already confirmed, plus as we’ve learned nothing is set in stone forever.

    • In principle I don’t really mind the idea that stuff gets financed through these frozen Russian assets instead of directly by us. As long as it’s overall sufficient in providing Ukraine with the weapons they need. What does seem like a huge blunder and pretty bad is to cut funding before this other scheme is in effect or even truly secured. This can (and might already) have negative effects on Ukraine.

    • This really unfortunate timing might have at least partially to do with the upcoming state elections in Saxony and Thuringia on September 1st, and Brandenburg on the 28th. In all 3 the right wing Afd and left Bsw, both pro putin/against support for Ukraine, are strong. Whereas particularly Scholz’s SPD is looking weak. So maybe this is only a short term play to gain sympathy point in those regions? If so they’ve learned nothing in all those years watching these extremist parties grow. In any case I’ll at least partially hold judgement until at least the first two elections are done.

    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      The last point is probably a big one. Scholz SPD is in real trouble making the 5% hurdle in both states, which would be a disaster for him.

  • MrMakabar@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The current budget allocation is about as high as the one in the 2024 budget was initially. They just added further spending over the year. Th other part is using Russian money instead. The real reason this is the current state, is that they want to get the budget passed as quickly as possible and the debt brake means that any funding for Ukraine has to be balanced with a cut in social spending. Obviously that is not popular.