‘Secret’ Arms Deals Provoke Germans -- International Herald Tribune
LONDON — There is at least one European export sector that continues to find a ready market around the world — weapons.
In the week in which the European Union received the Nobel Prize for Peace in Oslo, protestors in the Norwegian capital were not alone in pointing out the irony that its member states account for a third of global arms exports.
It is an irony that has a particular resonance in Germany right now, where the government’s decisions on a series of weapons deals have created unease among parliamentarians who complain they were kept in the dark.
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My Comment: Billions of Euros and tens of thousands of jobs are at stake (plus national security by keeping your industries busy) .... bottom line .... the Germans are not going to change policy.
Update: More on Germany's "risky" arms exports can be read here.
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