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Scholz: Sticking to social projects despite the Bundeswehr budget

2022-05-01T15:12:15.066Z


Scholz: Sticking to social projects despite the Bundeswehr budget Created: 05/01/2022Updated: 05/01/2022 17:07 Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) speaks at the May Day rally of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) on Labor Day. © David Young/dpa At the rallies on May 1st, one thing became particularly clear: the trade unions fear that Bundeswehr spending could be at the expense of the welfare s


Scholz: Sticking to social projects despite the Bundeswehr budget

Created: 05/01/2022Updated: 05/01/2022 17:07

Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) speaks at the May Day rally of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) on Labor Day.

© David Young/dpa

At the rallies on May 1st, one thing became particularly clear: the trade unions fear that Bundeswehr spending could be at the expense of the welfare state.

Chancellor Scholz had a message ready for them.

Düsseldorf/Dortmund - According to Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), the higher defense spending in Germany will not lead to a change of course by the federal government in social areas.

"If we now spend more money on security and defense because we have to in the face of this aggression, then the following also applies: We will not end any of our projects that we want to launch for a more just and solidarity-based society in this country ' Scholz said on Sunday at a DGB rally on Labor Day in Düsseldorf.

He went there several times on the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine.

At several rally locations on May 1st in Germany, speakers from the trade unions made it clear that the extra billions for the Bundeswehr should not come at the expense of the social sector.

“We need this money for future investments in the transformation.

And we need it for the efficiency of our welfare state," said the chairman of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), Reiner Hoffmann, in Berlin.

Military peacekeeping must not be at the expense of social peace.

The DGB state chairwoman of North Rhine-Westphalia, Anja Weber, also demanded at the rally in Dortmund that she should not be at the expense of spending on social affairs.

Like the head of the DGB, IG Metall chairman Jörg Hofmann also opposed significantly higher armaments spending in the long term.

The Ukraine war should not "be used as an opportunity for a new armament spiral," Hofmann said at a rally in Aachen.

That is why IG Metall firmly rejects a permanent increase in the defense budget to more than two percent of gross domestic product.

“We are clearly opposed to that.

We need neither a two percent target nor the next global arms race," explained Hofmann.

Scholz assured Ukraine of further support.

"We will continue to support Ukraine, with money, with humanitarian aid, but it must also be said: we will support it so that it can defend itself, with arms deliveries, like many other countries in Europe are doing," he said Dusseldorf.

"I call on the Russian President: Silence the guns!

Withdraw your troops!

Respect the sovereignty and independence of Ukraine!”.

Scholz was insulted as a "liar" and "warmonger" during his performance in Düsseldorf.

He had to strain his voice to make himself heard.

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Cries of "make peace without weapons" could also be heard during his speech.

Scholz made it clear at this point that he considered radical pacifist demands to be outdated.

"I respect every pacifism, I respect every attitude, but it must seem cynical to a citizen of Ukraine when they are told to defend themselves against Putin's unarmed aggression," said Scholz, adding: "That's from the Time fallen!“.

As a result of the Ukraine war, Scholz fears a global hunger crisis.

"This war will have consequences, consequences around the world," he warned.

“We already have to worry that there are some who will starve, that there are countries that can no longer afford grain for their people.

That this whole war situation is also leading to a global hunger crisis.” Scholz was referring to the fact that the war in Ukraine, one of the world’s great breadbaskets, has massively restricted its export opportunities.

He assured: "We will not leave these poor countries alone, we will support them."

After the DGB rally in Düsseldorf, Mohamed Boudih, the chairman of the NRW food-enjoyment restaurant union (NGG), spoke of noise, including the noise of sirens.

Nobody is immune to disruptors who come explicitly to prevent participants in an event from having their say.

"I think that's an unspeakable decline in the culture of political discussion in our country," he said.

dpa

Source: merkur

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