Row over Airbus boss intensifies

BBC ^ | December 1, 2004

[ConservativeStatement]

The row over the leadership of Franco-German company EADS has intensified with its German boss accusing French colleagues of "personal ambition". EADS, parent firm of Airbus, has been gripped by infighting amid reports that the French government wants to appoint a French executive as its sole boss.

[Mount Athos]

Interesting. First several EU countries demand that France have nothing to do with the Eurofighter, now Germany learns not to trust French ambitions to dominate Airbus.

[Trepz]

the French government wants to appoint a French executive as its sole boss.

The french, althought totally incompetent, always think they should run everything. When they do, it becomes bogged down in bureacratic stupidity.

[cweese]

Ha! Hoping the Germans learn that the French want to be the boss of the world!

[geedee]

Life is good. GW won . . . the French are being the French . . . and our warriors are kicking terrorist-bootie.

Yup . . . life be good.

[Law is not justice but process]

Well, I don't know if they are learning that, since the Germans themselves want to be boss of the world. Germany and France have fought several wars over the issue of who will be boss of the world (Napoleonic, Franco-Prussian, WW-I, and WW-II to name a few of the more recent ones). One thing I bet they are learning: a weak dollar makes any product built by Boeing look that much better than the equivalent built by Airbus.

[chiefqc]

The french thinking of only themselves?

I'm shocked, totally shock.

[expatpat]

It's time for the Wehrmacht to march again -- down France's long and shaded boulevardes.

[ConservativeStatement]

Airbus (EADS) has a December 10 meeting to determine if they want to go head-to-head with Boeing's 7E7. There was a lengthy story in yesterday's New York Times, too, about the possible A350.