The agreement on the "special fund" does not mean that the traffic light coalition and the Union faction would agree.

Until recently, there were differences of opinion about the use of the 100 billion euros.

The compromise means that the CDU/CSU parliamentary group gets its will to really only serve the armed forces with the money, but that calls from the traffic light coalition to take civil defense and cyber security into account have also prevailed.

This should now be considered in the federal budget.

In other words: What could not be taken into account in the special fund is charged to the “regular budget”, which means, conversely, what is really necessary is shifted from the federal budget to the special fund.

A second condition of the Union for the approval remains controversial.

Both sides have formally agreed on NATO's two percent target.

Fulfilling this goal not every year, but over a period of five years, leaves a lot of room for interpretation and evasive manoeuvres.

The government's many reservations about inventing a strict rule do not lie in the structures of procurement, but in the fact that the two percent requirement is rejected up to the head of the SPD parliamentary group, Rolf Mützenich.

On the morning of the agreement on the special fund, he described the code number as abstruse on Deutschlandfunk.

How rickety the structure of the special fund is was shown after the agreement was reached by the statement by Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) that the debt brake would remain in place, with the coalition factions and the Union faction changing the Basic Law.

This is only the half truth.

The whole: The Basic Law must be changed in order to circumvent the debt brake.

If it weren't changed, which Mützenich had threatened to do in the meantime, in order to be able to go through with the matter without the Union, the debt brake would not be overridden.

An emergency would have to be declared or drastically saved somewhere else.

In one case, the coalition would make a fool of itself (is it an emergency that the Bundeswehr has been neglected for years?),

The Union is helping the coalition out of a major embarrassment by supporting the agreement.

In return, she gets something substantial (the endowment and the approach to the two percent target) and something that the coalition had not previously envisaged (an amortization plan for the "assets", which are none).

Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and the faction leaders of the traffic light coalition will now have to strive for unity.

The fact that a two-thirds majority is actually achieved does not depend on the Union faction, but on the government factions.