Dhaka, May 20 -- US President Donald Trump can feel vindicated: Germany's new foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, said this week that the government had accepted the president's demand to invest 5pc of GDP in defense. Speaking at a meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Antalya, Turkey, on Thursday, Wadephul also said Germany would support Nato's proposal to provide 3.5pc for classic military purposes and an additional 1.5pc for defense-related infrastructure.
However, it will likely only become clear exactly how much all the members of the security alliance plan to invest at a Nato summit scheduled for the end of June in The Hague, Netherlands.Wadephul's comments came a day after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced that he wanted to t...