Germany hopes to meet its goal of spending 2 percent of national GDP annually on military needs by 2025, the government said on Monday, saying it was being held back by the arms industry’s capabilities, AFP reported.

Government spokesman Steffen Hebeshreit confirmed at a regular press conference that Berlin will not meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s 2022 goal of meeting its NATO commitments.

Whether that will happen next year “remains open,” he added.

But Germany is “determined (…) to reach the 2% target during this legislature” which ends in 2025, Hebestreit said.

The invasion of Ukraine prompted Germany to deeply review its military policy, which had been steeped in pacifism since the end of World War II.

In 2014, after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, NATO nations pledged to increase defense spending to 2 percent of GDP by 2024, but Europe’s biggest economy has taken a long time to deliver.

Germany’s change of course was reflected in the creation this year of a special fund worth 100 billion euros to modernize its aging military equipment.

However, he remained vague on when he would follow through on his promises.

The goal is to reach 2% of GDP “in the coming years,” according to the budget voted this fall.