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dberhane
on Oct 27, 2018
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The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War
If there is EU resolution to suspend arms sales why is Macron still refusing to abide and continuing to sell weapons to the Saudi regime:
https://www.france24.com/en/20181026-macron-france-halt-saud...
blattimwind
on Oct 27, 2018
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Okay, that makes two. Quite sad. Reason is likely that the EU parliament's resolution on this is non-binding; the EU parliament doesn't have the power to just revoke export permissions already granted by member state's governments.
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