2024-01-09 21:16:59
By Solenn Paulic
Published 4 hours ago, Updated 1 hour ago
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Luxembourg Prime Minister Luc Frieden hold a joint press conference on January 8, 2024. JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP
ANALYSIS – Olaf Scholz accuses his partners, and Paris in particular, of not keeping their commitments on military support for kyiv.
Bruxelles
The Europeans are not delivering enough weapons to Ukraine and the European Union must, by February 1, when the Twenty-Seven meet in Brussels, have a “precise overview of their concrete contributions”. These words are those of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who raged in Berlin on Monday against the far too “weak” forecasts of a “majority of Member States”, at a time when Germany will “double” its military aid. in 2024 from 4 to 8 billion euros. In mid-November, in Brussels, it was its Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, who nailed the Europeans’ March 2023 objective of having delivered 1 million munitions, mainly shells, to Kiev one year later. 155 mm but also missiles. “The million (munitions) will not be reached, we must assume it,” he said.
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