SpaceWar.com reports: “Germany is set to ramp up defence spending with the incoming government, saying it wants to invest hundreds of billions of euros to bolster Europe’s security as US guarantees look increasingly fragile.

Likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said Tuesday he planned to reform the country’s strict constitutional ‘debt brake’ to pump up defence spending and pursue massive infrastructure investments.

The announcement came just over a week after national elections and with talks underway between Merz’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc and the centre-left Social Democrats to forge a new governing alliance.

The two sides however agreed to try to rush through the changes before a government is formed, as US President Donald Trump’s public falling out last week with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky added to the sense of urgency in Europe…”