In the current German federal budget, €50 million is allocated to drone defence, while €700 million is allocated to the domestic intelligence service (Verfassungsschutz), 14 times more.
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The exact BfV figure for 2026 is €686.7 million, not €700 million (a rounding of ~1.9%); the true ratio is ~13.7:1 rather than exactly 14:1.
The €50 million is specifically the Bundespolizei's drone-defence allocation (described as an additional/increase), not total German drone-defence spending; other drone-defence funding (e.g. within the Bundeswehr/defence budget) is not included, which may understate total drone-defence expenditure.
The term 'Verfassungsschutz' is used to mean the federal Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) alone; the figure does not include the 16 state-level Landesämter für Verfassungsschutz.
The comparison of a single domestic-security line item against the whole BfV budget is a selective framing typical of the speaker's (AfD/ESN) narrative.