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Chancellor Olaf Scholz
GERMAN Chancellor Olaf Scholz faces opposition from his own Social Democrat backbenchers after agreeing to host US missiles with a range of up to 2,500km (1,550 miles), able to hit Moscow.
SPD parliamentary leader Rolf Mutzenich warns that “not every weapon makes Germany safer,” joining others, including even some Christian Democrats, in saying the Bundestag should have a say.
MPs are planning to force a debate next month, though government lawyers say that it does not need parliamentary consent.
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The federal government’s plans to finance the war in Ukraine with Russian assets, and a possible deployment of German troops, put the population in Germany in the highest danger, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pouring €11.5bn into the Kiev swamp, blocking Trump’s peace plan, and pushing Nato right up to Russia’s borders – no matter if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
