German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's governing coalition has agreed in principle to double the country's military aid for Ukraine next year to 8 billion euros ($8.5 billion), a political source in Berlin said on November 12. If approved by parliament, where Scholz's parties hold a majority, the boost would lift Germany's defense spending to 2.1 percent of its gross domestic product. Lawmakers from Scholz's Social Democrats, the Free Democrats, and the Greens agreed on the increase during negotiations on the 2024 federal budget ahead of a formal meeting of the budget committee of the Bundestag on November 16, the source said.
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