Brussels, 12/07/2004 (Agence Europe) - Encouraged by the Boeing aeronautical manufacturer, the US authorities are stepping up their fight to get rid of European public aid for the Airbus project. This is what we can suppose, at the very least, from the ideas expressed last week in Washington by US trade representative Robert Zoellick.
In 1992 the USA and European Union agreed that European governments could go up to subsidising 33% of its research and development costs in aeronautics. The...