Scholz wants to fund billions in Ukraine aid only through debt

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2025-01-15

Berlin (dpa) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said he will only agree to additional arms deliveries to Ukraine amounting to ?3 billion ($3.1 billion) before next month's parliamentary election if they are financed by suspending the government's strict rules on new debt. The aid is only possible through separate borrowing, "because otherwise the money isn't there," he said in an interview with private broadcaster RTL. Scholz had already made t......

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