February 5, 2007

MAY AS WELL FIGHT OVER THE BLACKSMITHING JOBS:

Berlin Talks Tough On Planned Airbus Cuts (Der Spiegel, 2/05/07)

Berlin has signalled it will fight to defend German jobs in the upcoming restructuring of troubled planemaker Airbus, threatening to cancel government contracts with EADS, the Franco-German parent company of Airbus, if it shifts production out of Germany.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 5, 2007 1:08 PM
Comments

What will they do, throw beer steins? Slap the French with sausage?

The Germans aren't even going to "force" Lufthansa to buy exclusively Airbus, so this is just talk.

Posted by: ratbert at February 5, 2007 3:25 PM
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