Volkswagen plans sale of Osnabrück plant for air-defense production

Where Left and Right agree, and where they split

Where Left and Right agree

Both frame the deal as a genuine shift from car-making to air-defense production with Rafael as partner, sold as preserving jobs, pending final approvals.

Where Left and Right split

Public money underwriting arms production without prior democratic debate, or Europe building scarce air-defense capacity instead of importing it.

Why they won’t converge

The divide is over values: whether public investment should ever underwrite arms production, a question that persists regardless of the jobs or security case made for the deal.