Five years after imposing restrictions on arms exports to Turkey, Norway has decided to accept Ankara’s arms applications.
The German government is drafting a document aimed at overhauling the country’s defence industry, a spokesman of the Ministry of Finance said on Sunday, without elaborating.
The government is working on the strategy document to modernize the defence and security industry and it is being developed in several departments, the spokesman said, confirming an earlier Handelsblatt report.
Handelsblatt reported that the strategy document would include clauses that would allow the construction of weapon systems factories in Germany to be quickly approved, including shortening deadlines and limiting the possibility of objections from citizens’ initiatives.
Germany’s tripartite coalition plans to adopt the document in August, Handelsblatt reported.
News of the renewed defence modernization push comes shortly after German defence firm Rheinmetall and the Italian peer Leonardo agreed earlier this month to form a joint venture to produce tanks and other ground defence systems.
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