An Airbus leader calls to no longer buy American

The director general of Airbus Defense and Space addressed, Friday, to the future German government. According to him, it is necessary to “strengthen the sovereignty of Europe” in matters of armament.

From this perspective, he calls for no longer using the increase in defense expenses to buy American products. © Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg – The leader of Airbus says he is optimistic about the future purchase of his Eurofighters by Germany to strengthen his defense. Safeguard safeguarded receiving defense alerts on Friday in the columns of the regional daily Augsburger Allgemeine, Michael Schöllhorn, boss of the military branch of the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus, spoke about the increase in defense expenses of the countries of the European Union. He addressed himself more particularly to the future German government of Friedrich Merz, who said he wanted to invest en masse in his rearmament. “Logical and absolutely necessary” announcements, welcomes Schöllhorn. But the latter calls on the EU not to supply himself with the United States, arguing: “If we use the increase in defense expenses to continue to buy standard products in the United States, we strengthen our dependence on other countries”. As the tribune relays it, the representative of Airbus takes as an example the case of Denmark: “The Danes, with their American planes F-35, If good idea, if they had to have the idea of ​​defending Greenland. They would not even arrive until then, “evoking in filigree the will displayed by Donald Trump to do hand-bass on Greenland, a vast autonomous territory of Denmark, rich in minerals and hydrocarbons. Read also: Emmanuel Macron promises new investments for defense without increasing Airbus taxes estimates that his Eurofighter is “the backbone of the air force” in the face of the risk of American disengagement, Friedrich Merz expressed his desire to strengthen the defense of Germany and Europe. But as the tribune points out, the country remains dependent on American military equipment. Michael Schöllhorn believes that it is possible to get rid of it: “Germany, in particular, must realize that Europe is threatened and too weak economically and militarily in this new era of history (…) Investing in defense is also investing in our economy and our society”. To read also: Defense: How Europe will finance its “whatever it costs” to defend its borders the outgoing government of Olaf Scholz had planned, after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, to buy 35 F35 combat aircraft from the American manufacturer Lockheed Martin. But that of Friedrich Merz could prefer Eurofighter models to them. Michael Schöllhorn is, in any case, convinced: “The Eurofighter is the backbone of the Air Force and with edge 5, we are preparing the plane for the future. I am optimistic and I think we are going to continue the good discussions with the new government and that we will quickly reach an order. ” Receive our latest news each morning, the information to be remembered on the financial markets. (tagstotranslate) d u00e9fense

Credit-Read More

// Function to fetch the latest posts
function fetchLatestPosts() {
const feedUrl = ‘https://newskiosk.pro/feed/’; // Replace with your blog’s RSS feed URL
fetch(feedUrl)
.then(response => response.text())
.then(str => new window.DOMParser().parseFromString(str, “text/xml”))
.then(data => {
const items = Array.from(data.querySelectorAll(“item”));
const latestPostsContainer = document.getElementById(“latest-posts”);
latestPostsContainer.innerHTML = ”; // Clear previous posts

// Shuffle the items array
const shuffledItems = items.sort(() => Math.random() – 0.5);

// Select the first 5 items from the shuffled array
const selectedItems = shuffledItems.slice(0, 5);

// Loop through the selected items and display them
selectedItems.forEach(post => {
const link = post.querySelector(“link”).textContent;
const description = post.querySelector(“description”).textContent;

// Create a new post element
const postElement = document.createElement(“div”);
postElement.classList.add(“latest-post”);
postElement.innerHTML = `

${description} Read more

`;

// Append the new post element to the container
latestPostsContainer.appendChild(postElement);
});
})
.catch(error => console.error(‘Error fetching the latest posts:’, error));
}

// Call the function to fetch and display the latest posts
fetchLatestPosts();