{"id":138975,"date":"2025-05-28T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/138975\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:04:12","slug":"germany-and-ukraine-sign-e5b-deal-on-long-range-weapons-cooperation-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/138975\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany and Ukraine sign \u20ac5B deal on long-range weapons cooperation \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The package also covers new contracts for air defense systems, munitions, and logistical support, including maintenance infrastructure and satellite communications.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s announcement comes just two days after Merz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-merz-lifts-range-limits-ukraine-weapons-russia-taurus-missiles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reignited Germany\u2019s long-running Taurus missile debate<\/a> by publicly lifting range restrictions on all Western-supplied weapons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Monday at the WDR Europaforum, Merz said: \u201cThere are no more range limitations for weapons delivered to Ukraine. Neither from the Brits, nor the French, nor from us. Not from the Americans either.\u201d He emphasized Ukraine\u2019s right to hit military infrastructure on Russian territory.<\/p>\n<p>The change could pave the way for Berlin to deliver the long-requested Taurus cruise missiles, a step repeatedly blocked by the previous government led by former Chancellor Olaf Scholz, over fears it would lead to escalation of the war. The Taurus system, with a range of over 500 kilometers, would enable high-precision strikes deep behind Russian lines.<\/p>\n<p>Germany also confirmed it will finance a significant portion of Starlink satellite coverage in Ukraine, helping secure communications as Kyiv braces for increased Russian assaults.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis marks the beginning of a new form of military-industrial cooperation between our countries,\u201d Merz said, calling the partnership one with \u201cgreat potential.\u201d He refused to comment on specific weapons systems.<\/p>\n<p>This article has been updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The package also covers new contracts for air defense systems, munitions, and logistical support, including maintenance infrastructure and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[6215,473,2000,299,1945,1824,2597,46,332,2823,657,2601,771,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-138975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-cooperation","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-friedrich-merz","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-policy","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-satellites","18":"tag-ukraine","19":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","20":"tag-war","21":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114586076123596705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}