Airbus Helicopters

Airbus has announced it intends to build helicopters at a new plant at Ghimbav, close to the central Romanian city of Brasov, in an investment worth about 40 million euro.

The plant is to be built on a 27,000-square-metre plot offered by IAR Ghimbav, a company controlled by the Romanian state.

Greece's government wants more than 100 million euros ($110 million) in compensation from German defense companies it says paid bribes to win arms deals, a senior defense ministry source confirmed on Monday.