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Co-chief of Germany's ruling SPD sceptical of NATO spending goal

FILE PHOTO: Social Democratic Party (SPD) co-leader Saskia Esken attends a news conference in Berlin, Germany December 12, 2022. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi

The co-chief of Germany's ruling Social Democrats (SPD) is sceptical about NATO's goal for each member to spend 2% of economic output on defence, according to a newspaper report, underscoring ambivalence in the country about bolstering the military.

Saskia Esken told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) she had always wondered whether this calculation was "the right way".

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