EADS Seen Facing Hurdles Inside and Out Over Thales
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A blockbuster merger to make Airbus parent EADS an even bigger threat to US archrival Boeing Co. would face opposition both internally
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Creating a defence and aerospace &quot;industrial champion&quot; centered on France may be impossible for Nicolas Sarkozy to engineer during his last days as finance minister, as political considerations cloud the prospects for a merger of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company and Thales, analysts said.
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Regulatory hurdles still to be jumped
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EADS&#039; top four executives have met in Munich but took no decisions on how to end the aerospace group&#039;s management crisis prompted by the superjumbo Airbus A380&#039;s production delays.
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The woes affecting European planemaker Airbus seeped beyond the troubled A380 superjumbo on Thursday as doubts surfaced over two other projects and the EADS
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Faced with &quot;significant&quot; challenges to its new military transport plane, aeronautical and defence group EADS has announced an &quot;action plan&quot; in an attempt to stick to its delivery timetable.
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Setting ground rules for competition is one thing, but seeking to determine outcomes is another. In European antitrust, there is more a doctrine of âreining inâ powerful companies than in the United States.
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Airbus and parent aerospace group EADS were in the eye of a breaking storm of union defiance and stock market doubts over cutbacks on Monday, a day before a strike in French factories.
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No merger proposal has been submitted to the boards of French defense company Thales SA and European aerospace consortium EADS despite reports that the French government is interested in a linkup, German Economics Minister Wolfgang Clement said Tuesday.
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Trans-Atlantic business-class fares are about to become even more complicated as competition grows and demand holds up.
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PARIS, Nov 12  - The European Aeronautic, Defence and Space Company (EADS) will soon launch a bid for French defence electronics group Thales in a deal orchestrated by the French government, which owns just over 15 percent of EADS and 31 percent of
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Problems abound for air travel. But there is hope.
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The French co-head of aerospace group   EADS EAD.PA brushed off negative comments from estranged   shareholder BAE Systems BA.L on Thursday, saying the Airbus   parent was weeks away from resolving some of its key problems.
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Russia, which has just acquired a 5.0-percent stake in the European aerospace consortium EADS, hinted that it might seek a &quot;blocking minority&quot; interest to have an impact on company policy.
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French and German executives are in a bitter dispute over the leadership of aerospace firm EADS.
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European plane-maker Airbus has warned it may need 15 years to catch up with and overtake US rival Boeing, while the co-chief executive at parent company EADS said plans for the new mid-size A350 jet might have to be scrapped.
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Airbus and its parent company EADS could disclose new delivery delays for the A380 superjumbo as well as a restructuring plan for the aircraft manufacturer, following a meeting Tuesday of EADS directors.