German Defense Minister plans €100million for army private consultants, lambasted by opposition – report

‘Germany’s Defense Ministry plans to spend around €100 million on private consulting companies and has already won parliamentary support for parts of it amid a lack of equipment for the military, Der Spiegel reports.
According to the magazine, the Budget Committee has already approved the spending of the first part of this sum on consultants that, it is promised, should make the German Armed Forces arms procurement program more effective.
The third-party experts would in particular oversee the purchases of new fighting jets and warships, according to a plan advocated by Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen. It is also backed by the ministry’s administrative chief, Katrin Suder, who was earlier a partner of the international management consulting giant McKinsey & Company.’
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