Germany refused to increase the military budget at the request of NATO and the United States. As said by the defence Minister of Germany Ursula von der Leyen, Berlin is not going to spend more money on military needs. "Our defence budget is 32 billion euros, and this is the last word", - said the Minister during the meeting of NATO in Brussels. As informs Die Welt, Germany spends only 1.3% of its GDP on defence, which is significantly lower than 2%, which is the management of the North Atlantic Alliance. Germany, therefore, located on the 14th place on the defense spending among all NATO countries. The defense Minister stressed that Germany is able to maintain the current level of funding and at the same time to invest in the research of new military technologies. "The question is not percentages. The question is, for a start, in the efficient use of funds," stressed von der Leyen. And yet politician assured that the Eastern European members of NATO can count on our solidarity". Therefore, Germany is ready to periodically participate in NATO exercises, sending them as the Minister said, "functional unit". "We need therefore to organize the protection Eastern allies to multinational contingent of NATO could be there rotary and elastic, but not static and continuously," he said. So, Germany, Denmark and Poland have decided to strengthen the building " North-East" in Polish metropolis Szczecin. at 60 military. Recall that in the spring of NATO in connection with the events around Ukraine decided to arrange an auxiliary military personnel for "strengthening of combat readiness and exercises, and to revise intentions on defense. Also, the Alliance decided to enhance air patrols in the East of Europe, to send ships into the Baltic sea and the Eastern Mediterranean. In early June, the permanent representative of the United States under the North Atlantic Alliance Douglas Lute said that the Alliance is going to strengthen stay in the region until the end of 2014.