内容摘要：since 2016, leading to a review by government-appointed commissioner Andy Couldrick.

since 2016, leading to a review by government-appointed commissioner Andy Couldrick.

The new defence proposal recommends that "necessary defence spending" above 1% of GDP should be exempt from debt brake restrictions, with no upper limit.Although Germany has provided more aid to Ukraine than any other European country, its military is notoriously underfunded.

Olaf Scholz's Social Democrat-led government set up a €100bn fund after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but most of that has already been allocated.Germany will have to find an extra €30bn a year just to meet the current Nato target of 2% of GDP on defence, and security experts believe it will need to raise its target closer to 3%.Scholz was due to meet Friedrich Merz and Social Democrat leaders on Wednesday on the eve of an EU summit devoted to Ukraine and European defence. His government fell apart late last year because the three parties in coalition could not agree to reforming debt restrictions.

The debt brake has been written into Germany's constitution, or Basic Law, and any change would require a two-thirds majority in parliament, which is not a foregone conclusion because of the large number of seats held by the far-right AfD and the Left party.However, the new parliament will not convene until late March and this measure will initially go before the old parliament.

Boris Pistorius, the Social Democrat defence minister in the outgoing government, said the spending plans were a "big, important step" even if they were far from being a coalition deal. Ten days after Germany's elections, the parties are taking part in exploratory talks, which continue on Thursday.

Pistorius told German TV that removing defence from national debt rules was not about armaments as much as "the security of our country - nothing more, nothing less".This flight was repeated five times until the end of January, the same month the use of Iranian drones was documented.

Qeshm Fars Air faces US sanctions due to numerous accusations of transporting weapons and fighters around the Middle East, particularly to Syria, one of Iran's main allies.Sudan had a long history of military cooperation with Iran before relations ended in 2016 due to a conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran, with Sudan siding with Saudi Arabia.

"Many Sudanese weapons were locally made versions of Iranian models," says Mr Baldo from the Sudan Transparency and Policy Observatory.Since the start of the current conflict, the Sudanese government has restored relations with Tehran.