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De Maiziere in the hot seat

June 11, 2013

German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere has rejected the opposition's calls for him to step down over the failed Euro Hawk drone project.

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Verteidigungsminister Thomas de Maizière (CDU) kommt am 10.06.2013 in die Bundespressekonferenz in Berlin zu einer Pressekonferenz zur "Euro Hawk"-Affäre. Foto: Michael Kappeler/dpa
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During his testimony on Monday before the lower house of the German parliament, the Bundestag, De Maiziere admitted that he had made mistakes in the multi-billion-euro Euro Hawk project. But the defense minister refused to step down, saying he had learned important lessons from what went wrong with project.