On 27 February 2022, three days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz told the Bundestag that Europe was living through a Zeitenwende, a turning point in history. He announced a special fund of 100 billion euros for the armed forces. Zeitenwende became the German word of the year. On 14 March 2023, the day she presented her report for 2022, the parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces, Eva Högl, said in an interview: Aber von den 100 Milliarden ist im Jahr 2022 noch gar kein Euro und Cent bei der Bundeswehr angekommen. (But of the 100 billion, not a single euro or cent reached the Bundeswehr in 2022.) She added: Es dauert alles viel zu lange. (Everything takes far too long.)