In March, the Bild newspaper reported that Pistorius had warned the German government of a 4.5 billion to 6 billion euros deficit in the Bundeswehr budget for 2025.
"It is no secret, this figure has been called: we need about 6.5 billion euros more next year," Pistorius told a press conference broadcast by German TV channel Phoenix.
On January 31, the German Defense Ministry said that Germany would meet NATO's defense spending target of 2% of national GDP in 2024, for the first time since the early 1990s.