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German Vice Chancellor and Minister of Economy and Climate Robert Habeck warned that Europe must ramp up defence spending during a global conversation with Euronews.

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00:00 German Vice Chancellor and Minister of Economy and Climate Robert Habeck warned that Europe
00:06 must ramp up defence spending during a global conversation with Euronews.
00:11 "You didn't see or you didn't want to see what Putin is doing, how much he is building
00:18 up his armies there. I don't want to spend money on armies and armaments. I can imagine
00:25 spending money on education, on research, on further education, on climate protection,
00:30 on sustainability criteria. But we have to do it. The time when you don't want to do
00:35 it is over. That's why we have to ramp up military spending to be able to protect ourselves,
00:42 to be able to give our own European protection guarantee, not just the Americans as a barrier,
00:50 but we have to be more capable of doing that ourselves. And I don't find it easy to say
00:55 that. The armament spending has increased in the last two years because we have supported
01:00 Ukraine so much. In my opinion, they have to be compensated for, you almost have to say,
01:05 the recovery of the European and at least the German army, to be able to do a little bit."
01:11 to come.
01:11 [SWOOSH]
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