ENI—Germany’s top Protestant cleric, Bishop Wolfgang Huber, has castigated the fact that his country has become the top armaments exporting nation of Europe.
“The export of arms from Germany has increased by 13 per cent from one year to the next,” said Huber, who heads the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), the country’s main Protestant umbrella. “Our country now ranks directly behind the United States and Russia in this trade, and ahead of all other European countries.”
Berlin’s Tagesspiegel newspaper had reported on its website that the list of foreign customers for German arms encompassed 126 countries, while arms exports worth 8.7 billion euros (US$10.4 billion) were approved by the German government in 2007.
