The volume of supplies approved by the government of Olaf Scholz this year was 8,340 million euros
German arms exports rose to their highest level with the start of the invasion of Ukraine: 8.34 billion euros, the volume of deliveries authorized this year by the Olaf Scholz government, of which more than a quarter went to Ukraine.
It is the second highest total in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) -behind that recorded in 2021- and it comes in the first year in power of the Social Democrat Scholz, at the head of a tripartite with the Greens and the Liberal Party (FDP). However, it should be noted that the eco-pacifist formation not only supported arms deliveries to Ukraine after the invasion, but even before it began, it called for a more active contribution to the defense of that country.
The most relevant minister, that of Economy and Climate Protection, Robert Habeck, had caused blisters among his party when he spoke out in 2021 after a trip to Ukraine, still as leader of the Greens in the opposition, for supplying weapons to that land.
The authorization of all war exports corresponds to his department, which has placed the green minister in complex situations. His Foreign Affairs co-religionist, Annalena Baerbock, shares that position and even rose to that position in 2021, demanding a more “critical” stance on Moscow.
In the 16 years in power of her predecessor, the conservative Angela Merkel, German arms exports almost always fell below 6 billion euros. There were more than 9,000 in 2021 alone.
Source: La Verdad
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