Years of the A400M problems, he was decried as a “roadside bird”. Defence Minister von der Leyen informed about the progress and was partially satisfied.

Christian field, the ARD capital Studio in Berlin

at the beginning of December. Return flight to Germany. The soldiers on Board of the Airbus A400M, have a months-long foreign deployment in Afghanistan. The military Transporter, the air force will take you from Camp Marmal in the North of the country to Wunstorf, near Hannover.

in the plane Hans-Peter Bartels, the defence Commissioner of the Bundestag is sitting; just before Christmas he visited the troops at the Hindu Kush part of the NATO Mission “Resolute Support”. If soldiers would have complained, then, about the problems with the transports to the area of operation and back again: flight cancellations, long waiting times. “You must be able to reasonably rely on the return dates, because there’s also a family,” says Bartels during the trip in an interview with tagesschau.de.