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		</div><p>Hundreds of peace protesters have formed a human chain outside Germany’s parliament, calling for disarmament and an end to weapons exports.</p>
<p>About 300 people formed the chain stretching from the parliament building to German chancellor Angela Merkel’s nearby office, the dpa news agency reported.</p>
<p>The demonstration, organised under the motto: “Peace, not armaments”, came as the German government prepares to approve its budget proposals for the next two years, which include hefty defence spending.</p>
<p>Protesters carried signs with slogans such as: “No killer drones”, and: “Achieve peace without weapons”.</p>
<p>German Trade Union Confederation president Reiner Hoffmann told the protest crowd it was time for the country to back away from the Nato commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defence.</p>
<p>“We need to break the armament spiral,” he told the crowd. “Armaments and armed conflicts don’t solve any problems.”</p>
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<p>Germany has been criticised by the United States for not meeting the 2% Nato goal, but Berlin has pledged to work toward it and has been increasing defence spending.</p>
<p>At an unrelated demonstration elsewhere in Germany, police turned water cannon on protesters in a snowy forest between the western cities of Frankfurt and Kassel.</p>
<p>Environmental activists have been demonstrating regularly against the planned expansion of the A49 highway.</p>
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