“Tough stuff”: Union wants to call Scholz into a report about the Taurus dispute. After weeks of silence, the Chancellor suddenly let the cat out of the bag during his visit to Sindelfingen.

“I don't want to fight a political battle, but I want to hand over control over Taurus to Ukraine, apparently out of mistrust,” says Johann Wadephul, deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group for foreign affairs and defense.