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Inertia, waste and fraud in the military expenditure

May 26, 2015 by IPB

By Pere Ortega and Jordi Calvo Rufanges

“For the first time since the crisis began in 2008, there is an increase in the Spanish military budget…(But) as it occurs every year in the proposal of the general state budgets, the amount destined to the Defense Ministry is being undervalued…” So says the Centre Delàs d’Estudis per la Pau (IPB member organisation, Barcelona) in its new report on the 2015 budget, “Inertia, waste and fraud in the military expenditure: Spanish Defense Budget Analysis in 2015”. English edition