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Hundreds of billions of euros expected to be spent on defense, Germany warns of rising arms prices
2026-06-24 09:05:53 / BOTA
Germany is expected to spend hundreds of billions of euros on defense by 2030. Budget experts warn of the risk of inflated prices and waste.
In the face of the huge increase in the defense budget, financial experts in the German parliament, the Bundestag, and the Federal Office of State Control and Audit are warning of inflated prices in the arms industry. There is a strong tendency in this sector to increase prices, the SPD rapporteur for the defense budget, Andreas Schwarz, told the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) agency. “When the customer is the Bundeswehr, different prices are set,” he said.
Doubling of the price of fuel containers
The Green Party's budget politician, Sebastian Schaefer, criticized the project costs for the procurement of the German Bundeswehr army, which are sometimes too high in international comparison. As an example, the two politicians mentioned fuel containers for the Bundeswehr troops, where it is not clear where the large cost increases came from.
According to RND reports, the unit price has doubled in four years, from 142,000 to around 291,000 euros. For this reason, budget experts have temporarily blocked the continuation of orders for fuel containers. One of the reasons for this development is the lack of competition, said Schwarz. He demanded that this should be controlled more strictly in future through competition law.
The Federal State Audit Office also said that the special fund for the military could negatively affect price developments. If an organization has too much money available in a short time, the risk of inefficient spending increases, it said in a special report from May 2025./DW
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