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BERLIN (Reuters) – The German military is looking at a 56 billion-euro ($61 billion) deficit in 2028, once its special fund for defence spending is exhausted, according to a report in Spiegel news magazine that piles fresh doubt on Germany’s rearmament pledge. Germany set up the 100 billion-euro special fund to purchase modern weapons and pledged to reach NATO’s target of spending at least 2% of gross domestic product on defence, as part of a major policy shift in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The missing sum, which Spiegel said came from an internal analysis of financing needs fro…

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