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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.
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
SOLOMON HUGHES explains how the PM is channelling the spirit of Reagan and Thatcher with a ‘two-tier’ nuclear deterrent, whose Greenham Common predecessor was eventually fought off by a bunch of ‘punks and crazies’
While Trump praises the ‘successful’ attack on Iranian nuclear sites, the question arises as to the real motives behind this escalation. MARC VANDEPITTE explores the issues
In part one of his Berlin bulletin, VICTOR GROSSMAN assesses the economic and political difficulties facing the new Merz government — and a regrettable ruling-class consensus on the solutions