Merkel and Chirac call for burden sharing on Airbus
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MESEBERG, Germany: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Jacques Chirac on Friday stressed their "common interest" in a fair sharing of burdens and opportunities as European airplane maker Airbus ...Comment
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France hopes to be able to  announce an agreement about a simplified management structure  for European defense group EADS  at a summit meeting on  Monday, but Germany is in no hurry to strike a deal.
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PARIS/BERLIN  - France hopes to be able to announce an agreement about a simplified management structure for European defense group EADS  at a summit meeting on Monday, but Germany is in no hurry to strike a deal.
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France may push to merge EADS with Thales.
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Mrs Merkel and Mr Chirac are co-ordinating positions on Turkey German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Jacques Chirac have rejected the idea of setting a deadline for Turkey to comply with EU ...Comment
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The dispute over subsidies to Airbus and Boeing are expected to be on the agenda as the new commissioner of the European Trade Union, Peter Mandelson, and his counterpart from the United States, Robert Zoeller, started discussions Monday.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy sought on Friday to persuade Poland to compromise over a new treaty to govern the European Union but made little progress.
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Philippe Camus, co-CEO of EADS, said the A350 was part of a long-term strategy for Airbus, taking both companies&#39; needs and technological progress into account.
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The European Union and the US must resolve differences over government aid to aircraft makers Airbus SAS and Boeing Co. and avoid taking the dispute to the World Trade Organization, French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said.
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PARIS The European trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, and the US trade representative, Robert Zoellick, said Monday that they were prepared to battle over aid to Boeing and Airbus after failing to resolve differences.
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France hopes to be able to  announce an agreement about a simplified management structure  for European defense group EADS at a summit meeting on Monday,  but Germany is in no hurry to strike a deal.
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The government, goaded by presidential candidates into responding to large job cuts at the airplane maker Airbus, said it was ready to pump cash into the company and shake up a Franco-German power-sharing pact. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin also called on the parent of Airbus, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, to abandon paying a dividend this year to its shareholders, which include the French government, after announcing plans to cut 10,000 jobs. Some 4,300 of those jobs are in France. Mr. Villepin, above, said the government stood ready to participate if the holding company decided to tap its shareholders for more cash through a capital increase to shore up a company badly hit by delays to the new Airbus A380 superjumbo airliner. âThe state will play its role,â he said. However, EADSâs biggest private shareholder, the German car company DaimlerChrysler, has battled for years to prevent what it regards as state meddling.
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PARIS The parent company of European aircraft maker Airbus has proposed splitting a contested US Air Force contract for refueling tankers with its rival, Chicago-based Boeing.
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Russia sought to reassure  France and Germany on Saturday on its plans for Airbus parent  EADS and held out the prospect of more gas for Europe to ease  fears over Moscow's leverage of its growing economic clout.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Jacques Chirac called for a "fair division" of the burden in restructuring crisis-hit European aircraft maker Airbus, in a statement released at a summit ...Comment
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American companies could become &quot;collateral victims&quot; of Washington&#39;s decision to escalate the row between Boeing and Airbus over subsidies into a full-scale dispute, according to NoÃ«l Forgeard, president and chief executive of the European aircraft maker
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The French president wants an agreement to streamline the dual French-German management at Airbusâs parent company, EADS.