The two main churches in Germany say a new German law on arms exports is needed, especially those to non-EU countries. They highlighted the frequent gap between declared political principles and actual practice.
Germany’s Protestant and Catholic churches on Monday criticized the continuing high level of German weapons exports and called for a revision of laws governing the approval of deliveries to other countries. Martin Dutzmann, chairman of an ecumenical joint committee on development policy called the GKKE, said there had been “an exorbitantly high number of approvals for arms exports” in 2015 and the first half of 2016. According to the GKKE, the approval granted by the German … continue reading
