{"id":117381,"date":"2019-04-03T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/german-divisions-over-saudi-arms-embargo-upsets-eu-allies-6\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T10:00:11","slug":"german-divisions-over-saudi-arms-embargo-upsets-eu-allies-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/german-divisions-over-saudi-arms-embargo-upsets-eu-allies-6\/","title":{"rendered":"German divisions over Saudi arms embargo upsets EU allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions between Germany and its EU allies are mounting after Berlin failed to reach an agreement on lifting an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia, even though a breakthrough had been expected on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Germany imposed an embargo in October after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but the measure has annoyed France and Britain, whose giant arms makers require German components that are now banned.<\/p>\n<p>Berlin has until Sunday to decide whether to extend or lift its ban on arms exports to the Middle Eastern country, which is also a leading participant in the war in Yemen. A meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmvg.de\/de\/bundessicherheitsrat-bsr--14556\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Security Council<\/a>, however, ended without an agreement as the ruling CDU and SPD coalition parties were at loggerheads, news agency DPA and Tagesspiegel reported.<\/p>\n<p>The center-right CDU wants to drop the embargo, while the center-left SPD want to keep it in place.<\/p>\n<p>Paris and London have pressured the German government to lift the ban. Frances ambassador to Berlin, Anne-Marie Desc\u00f4tes, stirred up the debate with an <a href=\"https:\/\/de.ambafrance.org\/Vom-German-free-zum-gegenseitigen-Vertrauen\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opinion piece<\/a> on Tuesday, in which she called Germanys export control system \u201cnot restrictive but unpredictable\u201d and complained that the ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia was \u201cparticularly affected by current German domestic politics and not just the strict application of European criteria and international obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Federal Government is in intensive talks about this and wants to reach decisions by the end of this month.\u201d <em>\u2014 Steffen Seibert, German government spokesman<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Her remarks chime with those from President Emmanuel Macron, who said last year it is \u201cpure demagoguery\u201d to want to ban Saudi arms sales over Khashoggis death.<\/p>\n<p>U.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-rebuffs-british-pressure-to-sell-arms-to-saudi-arabia\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said last month<\/a>, in a letter to his German counterpart Heiko Maas that he is \u201cvery concerned about the impact of the German governments decision on the British and European defense industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rift between Germany and France is particularly delicate as both countries signed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-and-angela-merkel-franco-german-aachen-treaty-tests-european-nerves\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Treat<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/german-divisions-over-saudi-arms-embargo-upsets-eu-allies\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions between Germany and its EU allies are mounting after Berlin failed to reach an agreement on..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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