It's officially agreed upon by all coalition members, but the finalizing of 2024's budget where they officially introduce that change is only scheduled for next week.

Also just the original 4 billion € for next year is more than all other countries with the exception of US and UK have spend this whole war...

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's just military aid though. In all, the EU has almost spent €85 billion to support Ukrainians.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/attachment/876709/Factsheet_EU_Solidarity_with_Ukraine_EN.pdf.pdf

For comparison, Russia is expected to have tripled their national military budget by 80 to €120 billion per year, or an increase of around 4% GDP. If the EU spends €60 billion /year on aid, that would mean around 0,4% of their GDP.

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

Aka Russia has a GDP comparable to Italy

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Bad ass for Germany and Ukraine. hope things go well.thanks for the context