Tag Archives: Exports
Greece Making Progress?
Germany still has a bit to go.
Greek prosecutors last week arrested two more people suspected of having taken bribes from German armaments firms during the last decade.
Singapore
Beautiful German weapon sale of the week.
Because somebody has to admire them.
Greece
Beautiful German weapon sale of the week (this time with extra added bribery).
Because somebody has to admire them.
Swords To Pflugscharen?
You can stop the import of Mein Kampf in Germany, why not stop the export of expensive weapons systems out of Germany?
The Munich Institute for Contemporary History has been working for years on a “scientific edition” of Hitler’s book. In 2012 the state government gave the green light, now it wants to stop the project*.
Meanwhile… On the occasion of his ninety-fifth birthday, Helmut Schmidt has called on the federal government to stop German weapons exports.”It is time to raise an objection,” the former chancellor wrote in the ZEIT. Germany is the world’s third largest weapons exporter and ranks before China, Japan, France and England, directly after the USA and Russia. “A development that displeases me greatly. And one that needs to be stopped by the coming coalition government in Berlin.”
Er habe Verständnis für “die Unlust der heutigen Deutschen”, “Aber ich halte es für abwegig, statt Soldaten Waffen zu schicken.”
* Germany does not ban “Mein Kampf,” but Bavaria has used its ownership of the copyright to block domestic publication until now. Late Tuesday, the state premier’s chief of staff, Christine Haderthauer, said that Hitler’s anti-Semitic memoir amounts to incitement and that the state would file a criminal complaint if anyone tried to publish it in the future. In Germany, copyright expires 70 years after an author’s death.
Israel
Beautiful German weapon sale of the week.
Because somebody has to admire them.
Israel is seeking to buy advanced missile boats from Germany to protect drilling operations in its offshore natural gas fields.
Saudi A.
Beautiful German weapon sale of the week.
Because somebody has to admire them.
Saudi-Arabien ist Hauptabnehmer deutscher Waffen.
Germany To Be Punished For Europe Not Having Enough Germanys
The EU now too is concerned that Germany’s current account surplus “is harming the wider European economy” and is openly considering punishing the naughty economic powerhouse.
Germany is relying too much on exports, eurozone officials are grumbling, while not doing enough to create demand at home. And although these officials maintain that “our problem will never be German competitiveness, but whether Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse, could do more to rebalance Europe’s economy,” their problem has always been German competitiveness and knowing that Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse, cannot do more to rebalance Europe’s economy.
“Europe needs more Germanys,” in other words, and it’s up to Germany to now, uh, create them.
Deutschland kann dem Rest Europas nicht Regeln vorschreiben und sich selbst nicht daran halten.
PS: “It’s GOOD to be the export king.”
Germany Suddenly Causing Global Economic Instability Again Or Something
The United States reprimanded Germany on Wednesday, saying its exporting prowess was hampering economic stability in Europe and hurting the global economy…
The criticism comes at a tricky juncture in relations between Washington and Berlin. German envoys met the White House national security adviser in Washington on Wednesday following reports the United States monitored German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone.
Germany’s economic policies causing global instability? That would be nice and all but I smell a rat here somewhere. Although I must say that when it comes to instability, global or otherwise, I would certainly always take our current administration’s recommendations very seriously. They sure seem to know what they are talking about these days.
“Die Kritik ist nicht nachvollziehbar.”
A Tale Of Two Titles
Wat denn nu (well which is it then)? Which of these two headlines is correct?
“Germany offers help to Syria chemical mission”
or
“Germany supplied Syria with chemicals up until 2011?”
Both are, you say? OK, I get it. I mean, I kinda sorta do.
Germany is ready to give finance and technical support to the international operation to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Saturday.
Observing Hermann 