Athens has been in no hurry to put military spending on the table, but then neither have its creditors, including its main European arms supplier - GermanyAmong the measures Alexis Tsipras’s government has used to swell the package it tabled in Brussels on Monday is a €200m (£142m) cut in next year’s defence budget.Estimates by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) for 2014 suggest that would equate to a reduction of around 5% in Greece’s military spending. Continue reading...
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