Economy

Why Germany hesitates to send Taurus rockets to Ukraine

.FOR MONTHS Olaf Scholz, Germany's chancellor, has actually avoided domestic as well as global pressure to provide Ukraine along with German-made Taurus trip missiles, an accurate, long-range munition. Determined to aid a more and more beleaguered Ukraine, some allies have actually made up brilliant plans to aid alter Germany's mind. David Cameron, Britain's overseas secretary, has actually hinted his visibility to a strategy that will see Germany send Taurus projectiles to Britain, thereby enabling Britain to send even more of its Storm Trace cruise line missiles to Ukraine. Yet Mr Scholz declines to shift. What are Taurus rockets-- and also why is the German government thus reluctant to deliver them to Ukraine?