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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8179

25 March 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/defence
Defence ministers welcome Germany's compromise concerning A400M funding

Zaragoza, 25/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - At their meeting in Zaragoza on Saturday, the EU's defence ministers hailed the agreement between the German government and the Bundesrat, releasing funding for the Airbus 400M carrier aircraft. The German parliament's budget committee gave the go-ahead on Wednesday to the release of EUR 5.1 billion from the 2002 budget for the first 40 A400Ms (of Germany's total order of 73 A400Ms). The political parties and the German government also agreed to the EUR...

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