German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has welcomed Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas’ proposal for an EU spending target of 0.25 percent of gross domestic product for Ukraine. Following the EU summit in Brussels on Friday, Scholz called the proposal „sympathetic“ and referred to calculations according to which the EU would even have to raise 0.8 percent of its economic output to reach the spending level of the USA. „That is why such benchmarks are good and helpful because they provide clarity,“ he said.