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Some EU lawmakers have challenged the European Commission for using the EU budget for subsidizing ammunition production.

Martina Michels, a member of the European Parliament from Germany and a member of The Left party, said the EU’s structural funds are instruments for strategic long-term investment. “They are intended to promote the harmonization of living conditions, while at the same time promoting climate-friendly structural change,” she said.

“Under no circumstances should they be used for armaments. A war economy is neither socially nor ecologically nor economically sustainable,” she said in a statement posted on Twitter.

“So we have the #EU using money from a so-called ‘Peace Facility’ to make sure that Peace doesn’t break out in Ukraine — The money will be used to provide ammunition to keep the War going, which will see more less well-off Ukrainians losing their lives — What has happened to EU …?” Mick Wallace, an Irish MEP, wrote on Twitter in response to a tweet applauding the Wednesday ammunition agreement by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.