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Slovenia is redoing its market at Patria in Finland?

(B2) According to Slovenian President Danilo Türk, visiting Finland, Patria will soon receive a new proposal for the purchase of armored vehicles. A highly anticipated decision from the Finnish defense equipment manufacturer.

La Slovénie avait, il y a un an, déjà signalé que, crise financière oblige, elle n’achèterait pas les 135 véhicules blindés prévus et commandés. Mais un peu moins: 80 selon les dirigeants de Patria.

Relations between Finland and Slovenia have become tense over this military deal which gave rise to an investigation, for suspicion of corruption, just at the time of the general elections in Slovenia. And we hope to turn the page in Helsinki, by winning a market, even a reduced one.

(NVP)

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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).