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The Polish presidential fleet equipped with Airbus?

(B2) In any case, this is the possibility envisaged by our Polish colleagues to Diary which is preparing a contract for the purchase of three planes for a value of more than 100 million Zlotys (more than 25 million euros). And the Airbus would have a good chance of winning. This procedure was launched several months ago. But the Liberal Tusk government decided to speed it up after the breakdown of two presidential planes in Asia, President Kaczynski had to interrupt his program of visits to Asia and cancel certain meetings. The planes are more than 18 years old and their design dates back to 1968. "A shame" comments an official from the National Security Office. To go faster, the Poles could ask the supplier to "lend" them a plane until the others are delivered to them. President Sarkozy had promised the former prime minister (brother of the current president) Jaroslaw Kaczynski to do everything possible with Eads to speed things up. The promise had fallen... along with the government

(NGV)

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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