In the USA, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius assured the Americans that Germany would invest more money in defense. But he has a problem that he doesn’t yet know how to solve.
Boris Pistorius promised a number of things in Washington in fluent English, which people were happy to hear there. Above all, he promised a further increase in Germany’s NATO contribution beyond the infamous two percent of gross domestic product. However, it may have worried the hosts a little that he has not yet been able to specify exactly how he wants to achieve this ambitious goal. There is a powerful obstacle in the way called the debt brake. We are still looking, the Defense Minister said jokingly and in German, for the “jack of all trades”.