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The German submarine deal helped sink Greece's economy (Photo: ThyssenKrupp)

EU commission called upon to go after corrupt defence deals

by Valentina Pop, Brussels,

MEPs and defence experts are calling on the EU commission to go after market-distorting, corrupt side-deals to big weapon deals between member states, such as the ones greasing Germany's submarine sales to Portugal and Greece.

As EU officials are packing their holiday suitcases in Brussels, prosecutors in Germany, Portugal and Greece are on to a hot summer, tracing the complex trails of bribes and side-contracts to the German submarines each of the southern countries signed up for at a...

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The German submarine deal helped sink Greece's economy (Photo: ThyssenKrupp)

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