Aviation Fight Mirrors Larger French-German Rivalry
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The European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, or EADS, is scrambling to quell an internal squabble that could increase tensions between French and German shareholders.
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By David Greising, Chicago Tribune  Dec. 17--HAMBURG, Germany -- In Airbus' sprawling production plant here, one of modern industry's biggest meltdowns, and the dawning effort to set things right, is a tale of two airplane-production hangars and two countries, Germany and France.
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PARIS, Oct 23 (IPS) - The joint strike action by French and German  railways workers Oct. 18 disguises wide differences in approach  to industrial action in the two countries.
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French President Jacques Chirac's trip this week to Beijing will bring into sharp focus the battle between the world's biggest aircraft makers, Europe's Airbus and Boeing of the United States, for the prized ...
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Germany saw fresh clashes Monday between  protesters and police ahead of this week&#39;s G8 summit as anti-globalisation activists fought to keep their cause from being hijacked by a violent minority.
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In a swift and alarming deepening of the war in Ivory Coast, air strikes by two government attack jets killed nine French peacekeepers and a US civilian
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EADS is grappling with a burgeoning controversy at its aircraft unit Airbus that has exposed communications lapses and threatens to revive Franco-German friction at the heart of the European aerospace group.
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French and German executives are in a bitter dispute over the leadership of aerospace firm EADS.
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A decades-long struggle between the world&#39;s two largest aircraft makers escalated into a new trade war between the United States and Europe, just as France-based Airbus stepped
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France faced the threat of legal action at the world court following its destruction of Ivorian military aircraft, as an Ivorian police chief said he saw French troops fire directly at unarmed demonstrators at a rally in Abidjan.
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French troops clashed with soldiers and angry mobs Saturday after government warplanes killed at least nine French peacekeepers and an American civilian in an airstrike -- mayhem that threatened to draw foreign ...
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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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French forces wiped out Ivory Coast&#39;s military aircraft in retaliation for the killing of nine of its soldiers stationed here, as anti-French feeling reach boiling point in the west African former French colony.
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France and Germany - united around Spain. It was an intentional contrast to the picture presented to the world 18
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FRANKFURT: For the past few years, Airbus and Boeing have been engaged in an all-out dogfight - selling not just different airplanes, but different visions of the future of air travel.
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Famed for engineering prowess, the German auto industry is also rife with rivalries and internecine politics.
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Allegations that French aeronautic group Dassault used middlemen to push aircraft sales in India have raised a media storm here as French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier arrived Wednesday.