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Merkel pledges to boost defence spending
By EUobserver
Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday it was important for Germany to boost military spending. Reaching Nato's target of two percent of GDP was "not completely beyond the imagination," she told military officers in Berlin on the eve of the budget debate in Germany's parliament. Germany spent about €37bn on defence in 2017 — the ninth-highest defence budget in the world.