Germany’s parliament made history Tuesday as it voted to sharply increase defense spending – by exempting it from limits on the country’s assumption of debt. Germany’s upper house, the Bundesrat, is widely expected to approve this change with a vote scheduled for Friday.

What happens today, here in Berlin, will impact the entire future of Europe's defence and its ongoing support for Ukraine. Germany's Parliament, the Bundestag, is voting on whether to take the brakes off defence spending.

The reforms include changes to the long-standing debt brake rule and a 500 billion euro ($548 billion) infrastructure and climate fund. As it involves changes to the constitution, the package needs a two-thirds majority in parliament,