Correspondent in Berlin
In January 2023, after months of delay, under pressure from his political and Western allies, Olaf Scholz agreed to deliver Leopard assault tanks to Ukraine.
A year later, the German chancellor finds himself in a similar situation, with the difference that the armored vehicles have been replaced by long-range missiles and no one knows whether Berlin will ultimately agree to provide these projectiles that Kiev has been demanding since the May.
On Thursday, after a disjointed debate in the Bundestag, a majority of parliamentarians rejected a motion from the opposition CDU demanding the delivery of the Taurus.
The vote took place in the absence of the chancellor, who, officially, never gave reasons for his refusal and abstained from speaking out.
To add to the confusion, the FDP chair of the Bundestag defense committee, Marie Agnès Strack-Zimmermann, an ally of the coalition but in favor of military support, lent her voice to the opposition.
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