Reuters: Scholz approves two billion euros in military aid

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  1. > According to the Reuters news agency, Chancellor Scholz has promised further military aid worth billions. **The majority of this is to go to Ukraine.**
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    > Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) wants to provide two billion euros in military aid, according to the Reuters news agency. A large part of this is earmarked for Ukraine, according to Reuters.
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    > **Accordingly, the money is to be spent on new military equipment.** About 400 million euros alone are earmarked for the European Peace Facility, which buys weapons for Ukraine. In addition, there would be expenditures for the German Armed Forces as well as for supplies to Ukraine and third countries.
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    > According to Reuters, the government has already agreed on the significant increase in funds for military aid in the supplementary budget. **The two billion euros are not part of the special assets of the Bundeswehr of 100 billion euros as a result of the war in Ukraine, but additional expenditure.**
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    > Recently, massive criticism of Scholz was voiced, with the FDP and the Greens growing incomprehension in the face of a head of government who often appeared speechless and weak in decision-making. The first members of the CDU/CSU rehearsed the uprising. “The chancellor is the problem,” said the Green Anton Hofreiter, chairman of the European Affairs Committee in the Bundestag.
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    > CDU leader Friedrich Merz joined in: Scholz should have gone to Ukraine himself after the cancellation of Steinmeier’s planned visit to Kiev, Merz told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. With his hesitant attitude towards Ukraine and his reluctance regarding the possible delivery of heavy weapons, Chancellor Scholz is creating a difficult image for Germany, Merz continued. “With his behaviour, he is endangering the cohesion of the entire community of states vis-à-vis Russia.”
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    > Translated with http://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

  2. >CDU leader Friedrich Merz joined in: Scholz should have gone to Ukraine himself after the cancellation of Steinmeier’s planned visit to Kiev, Merz told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. With his hesitant attitude towards Ukraine and his reluctance regarding the possible delivery of heavy weapons, Chancellor Scholz is creating a difficult image for Germany, Merz continued. “With his behaviour, he is endangering the cohesion of the entire community of states vis-à-vis Russia”

    Not that Merz is totally wrong here, but coming from the CDU sounds quite ironic.

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