CDU politician Röttgen describes government plans to increase military aid as “cynical”. Ukraine needs weapons – “as soon as possible”. Green politician Hofreiter makes a similar statement.
The CDU foreign policy expert Norbert Röttgen has clearly criticized the plan to increase the funds for military aid to Ukraine.
‘Unfortunately I have to say it. What Scholz and Lindner came up with is cynical,” Röttgen wrote on Twitter, referring to Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP). “While all of Europe is asking Germany for leadership and responsibility, they are busy saving face for the disputing parties in the federal government.”
In the traffic light coalition, there had recently been a dispute over the delivery of heavy weapons to Ukraine. Politicians from the Greens and FDP had accused Chancellor Scholz of hesitation. It has now been agreed that the funds for the so-called upgrading initiative will be significantly increased this year from 225 million to two billion euros.
Ukraine should get more than one billion euros
This is a program that supports partner countries in crisis regions so that they can invest in more security. Ukraine should get more than a billion euros from it.
The Russian major offensive is imminent. Ukraine cannot defend itself with money, it needs weapons “and as quickly as possible,” wrote Röttgen. “Buying weapons in Germany with German money takes time: the Bundestag has to discuss and decide on a supplementary budget, then permits for arms exports have to be applied for and approved, and finally the weapons have to be delivered. Then it’s summer.”
The chairman of the Bundestag’s Europe Committee, Anton Hofreiter (Greens), told the “Welt am Sonntag”: “The increase is a good first step, but (it) cannot replace the direct delivery of weapons.” An oil embargo must also be implemented quickly in order to cut off important revenues for Russia, he added.
Source: Stern
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