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‘Friends, friends, business aside’...
I refer to one more contradiction between the EU and the United States, this time in the aircraft industry where, despite the 1992 agreement on government support, each side tries to defend its interests, because that is how capitalist competition operates.
The European Parliament complains that ‘the EU has consistently adhered to the spirit and letter of the 1992 Agreement and has regularly provided documented evidence of compliance’ while ‘the US has largely ignored its obligations’, ‘unilaterally purported to withdraw’ from the agreement and brought ‘a WTO case against the EU, citing European repayable financing which fully complied with the 1992 Agreement and which is similar to that benefiting Boeing’.
At the same time, faced with the ‘bitter attacks’ by Boeing and the US Congress, against the contract awarded to Northrop Grumman Corporation EADS for the US Air Force aerial tanker recapitalisation programme, the European Parliament seeks to pour oil on troubled waters, by pointing out the need to ‘to arrive at a pragmatic balance between European civil support and the US military-industrial scheme’.
It seems that not all countries are entitled to sovereignty and ‘free trade’…"@en1
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