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One of the many sins of Greek society is its massive military overspending. Look it up - military spending to GDP ratio of different countries.
Then Germany freaked out when France announced it was selling jetfighters to Greece at a cut-rate cost (thereby muscling out German companies trying to earn a profit) with German money!!! Hilarious!
A brazen lie.
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
So it is a brazen lie.
That:
>The second boat, Pipinos, was officially launched in February 2007 and is at present going through Greek harbour acceptance trials in Piraeus.
On September 21, 2009 TKMS announced that the contract with the Greek Navy for all four submarines had been cancelled due to country's arrears of more than 520 million Euros. TKMS is now seeking arbitration to resolve the matter.[21][22]
On October 27, 2009 the Greek Ministry of Defence officially confirmed that they intend accepting the three boats built in Greece. The first-of-class boat built in Kiel will not be accepted, and will be offered for sale. Proceeds from the sale will be used to pay the debt to TKMS>
also shows that the squabbling about the quality of the submarines is rather pre crisis. And that th reamining orders are about submarines built in Greece.
Migeru:
the euro working group rejects Greece's proposal to make up for 325m shortfall by defense spending cuts and ask for pension cuts instead
hmmm doesn't fit the frame very well, Cris... It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
It's as though they are trying to ask the question: "How craven can we be?"
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