German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised his government will support the defence industry and called for closer cooperation between producers in Europe as he opened a trade fair on Wednesday. “Today we see more clearly than ever how important it is to have a European and German defence industry that can continuously produce all major types of weapons and the necessary ammunition,” he told the International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA) in Berlin. He said Germany had “given the industry too much of a wide berth in the past,” but “that is over. Russia’s attack on Ukraine in violation of international…