Brussels, 22/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday, the European Union submitted its first written submission in the EU WTO challenge to US government subsidies to airline giant Boeing, at the WTO headquarters in Geneva. The EU accuses the United States of paying more than USD 23 billion of non-refundable subsidies since 1990. The Commission submits that the between 1990 and 2004, the federal government paid out nearly 18.9 billion dollars in R&D aid and tax breaks (NASA and Department of...