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Washington (AP) - US President Joe Biden has temporarily stopped the plans drawn up under his predecessor Donald Trump to withdraw 12,000 American soldiers from Germany.
There will be no troop withdrawal until a thorough review of the plan is complete, Biden's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in the White House on Thursday.
General Tod Wolters, who is responsible for the US armed forces in Europe, announced on Wednesday that the plans would be put on hold.
Trump had announced the partial withdrawal of US soldiers from Germany last June and justified the step, among other things, with the low defense spending of NATO partner Germany in his view.
According to the decision, a third of the 36,000 soldiers in Germany at the time should return to the USA or be transferred to other European NATO countries.
This would have primarily affected three locations in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate.
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A legislative package on the defense budget that was passed against the will of the president prevented the implementation of the plans from starting during Trump's term of office.
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