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More than half of Germans are said to have no issue with profiting from the arms industry, a sentiment that has grown since the start of the war in Ukraine and the reelection of U.S. President Donald Trump, the results of a new poll showed on Sunday. Over 56% of respondents polled by the opinion research institute Innofact said private investments in the arms industry were justifiable. Of these 21.4% think they are "definitely justifiable" and 34.9% "somewhat." By contrast, almost 31% found such investments "rather reprehensible" and almost 13%...

Macron's comments are seen as an attempt to dissuade French tycoons from cozying up to Trump, potentially to try to cut private deals, outside regular EU trade policy. Earlier this month Trump announced that French shipping giant CMA CGM intended to invest €20 billion in the U.S. In January, meanwhile, Bernard Arnault, the head of luxury goods giant LVMH, said he was considering increasing investment in the U.S. and lauded Trump's economic policy. On Wednesday the Trump administration slapped the EU with 20 percent tariffs on all exports to the...