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Row over Airbus boss intensifies
BBC ^ | December 1, 2004

Posted on 12/01/2004 8:38:49 AM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: airbus; daimlerchrysler; eads; french

1 posted on 12/01/2004 8:38:50 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

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.


2 posted on 12/01/2004 8:41:59 AM PST by Mount Athos
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
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.

3 posted on 12/01/2004 8:42:50 AM PST by Trepz
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

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


4 posted on 12/01/2004 8:44:20 AM PST by cweese
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Life is good. GW won . . . the French are being the French . . . and our warriors are kicking terrorist-bootie.

Yup . . . life be good.

5 posted on 12/01/2004 8:45:30 AM PST by geedee (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.)
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To: cweese
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.
6 posted on 12/01/2004 8:51:33 AM PST by Law is not justice but process
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
The french thinking of only themselves?

I'm shocked, totally shock.

7 posted on 12/01/2004 9:14:31 AM PST by chiefqc
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

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


8 posted on 12/01/2004 9:18:23 AM PST by expatpat
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To: Law is not justice but process

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.


9 posted on 12/01/2004 9:20:08 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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