Egypt in the News: Egypt loves German arms

Steering the conversation on Egypt in the foreign press this morning: Egypt has turned out to be one of the biggest buyers of German arms, according to preliminary figures reported on by the Associated Press which show that EUR 4.3 bn of the EUR 9.35 bn of arms exported by Germany last year ended up in Egypt. Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that researchers are trying to track the antiquities looted by the Nazis from Egypt and other countries in the Mediterranean region.