CDU Boss Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has demanded that the SPD a commitment to the defence industry. Anyone who wants to prevent exports at any price, “must honestly say that he wants this industry in Germany,” she said of the editors ‘ network of Germany. It is wrong for the rules to be interpreted as meaning that the exports would, in fact, to zero. “Then you should say that to the affected companies and workers face-to-face.”
The Grand coalition should enhance European defence partners in the strict German export rules, she demanded – obviously, the social Democrats directed. Union and SPD are arguing about arms exports. From France and the UK, there is sharp criticism of the stop German shipments of Arms to Saudi Arabia, because community projects are concerned.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) had indicated during a visit in Paris understanding and said, there must also be compromises that go beyond “the text of the coalition agreement ( … )”. The SPD rejects a loosening.
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Kramp-Karrenbauer said: “If Germany is involved in a European or supra-national project, then the partners must find a common set of rules. This may also mean that these projects are subject to the strict German rules.“ Otherwise, there would be “such projects in the future without Germany”. (Reuters, dpa)
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