{"id":4920,"date":"2025-03-26T09:34:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/lawyers-see-business-opportunities-in-germanys-increased-spending-on-defense-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:34:50","slug":"lawyers-see-business-opportunities-in-germanys-increased-spending-on-defense-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/lawyers-see-business-opportunities-in-germanys-increased-spending-on-defense-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers See Business Opportunities in Germany&#8217;s Increased Spending on Defense, Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Germany\u2019s parliament has approved landmark spending reforms aimed at upgrading the armed forces, defense procurement and infrastructure, presenting significant opportunities for lawyers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Business law firms expect to play a major role in updating Germany\u2019s beleaguered armed forces, the <i>Bundeswehr<\/i>, as Germany\u2019s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz counters the Trump administration\u2019s antipathy toward supporting European security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A tranche of \u20ac500 billion is set to be released for infrastructure and climate spending over the next 12 years. In addition, a constitutional amendment was passed that allows defense spending to bypass a constitutional debt brake, with about \u20ac500 billion more expected to be spent on defense over the same time period, opening the door for further spending and translating into big business for Big Law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s parliament has approved landmark spending reforms aimed at upgrading the armed forces, defense procurement and infrastructure, presenting significant opportunities for lawyers. Business law firms expect to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[254,2299,5241,1048,5242,7,3407,4055],"class_list":["post-4920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-business","tag-defense","tag-germanys","tag-increased","tag-infrastructure","tag-lawyers","tag-opportunities","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}