 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on November 10 said his government would adapt its defence budget to ensure the country achieves the NATO spending target of 2% of GDP even after a special 100 billion euro defence fund has been exhausted. Scholz was speaking a day after his government pledged to make the German military the backbone of European defence as part of a major policy shift to ramp up spending and modernize its forces following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 that I in his remarks on. On Friday, Scholz turned down the idea of reintroducing the draft which was abolished in March 2011 and implemented in July of that year after almost 55 years during which German men were required to serve in the armed forces. And also the president of Belarus, who is connected to Putin so that he can achieve his power in his own country, is at the same time afraid of it because he also recognizes it. In this respect, I think everyone understands that we have to give more for defence and that we have to put ourselves in the position to be able to defend our country and our government. We have to give more for defence and that is why I think it is not a good idea to re-establish everything and establish a whole other country than the ones we have today. We will continue to defend these 2% for the whole 20 years, the 30 years and I say that very consciously because of course some of what we are now may be delivered in the 30 years.