Damage to submarine communication cables between new NATO members Finland and Sweden and their alliance partners Germany and Lithuania was likely sabotage, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday. “No one believes that these cables were cut by mistake,” Pistorius said in Brussels at an EU defence ministers meeting to discuss the different threats facing the European Union.
Germany’s Scholz speaks with Putin for first time in nearly 2 years
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•Greenpeace study says NATO still holds military advantage over Russia
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•Survey finds Germans favour hiked defence spending
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•Kremlin awaiting first move from Germany after hints from Scholz
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•German Cabinet approves new military service model to boost numbers
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•Russia’s war on Ukraine has prompted Germany to revisit its defence posture, which increasingly suffered from a lack of investment since the end of the Cold War as imminent threats appeared to diminish. The legislation must now pass through Germany’s two houses of parliament. It could come into force in May of next year.
German Defence Ministry faces shortfall of €6 billion
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•German defence chief warns of Russian military build-up
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•Scholz addresses criticism of German defence spending
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•Germany’s Baerbock backs U.S. missiles to deter Russia
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•Germany says Hungary’s EU presidency causing ‘a lot of damage’
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•Deputy government spokesman Wolfgang Büchner said that Orbán could travel wherever he wanted, adding, “What is not acceptable is that he travels through the world with the impression that he is doing so on behalf of others. And there will certainly be further discussion about how to deal with this.”
Pushback against conscription plans in Germany
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•Economic researchers and partners in the ruling coalition led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz have warned of immense economic costs and legal difficulties that could result from plans for military conscription proposed by Defence Minister Boris Pistorius in June in an attempt to boost the numbers of the German armed forces.
Kremlin slams plans for long-range U.S. weapons in Germany
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•Russia has criticized the planned stationing of long-range US weapons in Germany as a return to the Cold War, after German leaders said the step was necessary due to the increased threat posed by Russia to European security. “We are well on the way to a Cold War. This has all happened before,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
Anger in Germany at ‘Russian plot’ to kill arms firm CEO
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•‘Successful’ launch for Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket
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•The European Space Agency (ESA) described the operation as a success, as Europe seeks to recover from a crisis in its launch sector, although an auxiliary drive in the upper stage, which was supposed to burn up on the way back to Earth, stopped shortly after ignition, with the two re-entry capsules not being released and the upper stage now remaining in space with the two capsules.