
PEACE campaigners formed a human chain around Germany’s Bundestag yesterday opposing plans to increase the military budget.
Activists carried placards declaring “No Killer Drones,” “Achieve Peace without Weapons” and “No New Cold War,” pointing to the United States’s attempt to dragoon European states into its attacks on the Chinese economy.
German Trade Union Confederation president Reiner Hoffman told the demo Germany should walk away from the Nato commitment to spend 2 per cent of GDP on the military.

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