(Vancouverdesi, Vancouver, 2 March 2012) Berlin is pressuring the incoming boss of European aerospace giant EADS, Tom Enders, to better defend German interests in the company, the business daily Handelsblatt reported on Friday… The German government’s coordinator for aerospace has written a letter to Enders, expressing “great concern” over an apparent decision to make Toulouse in France the group’s main centre of gravity… Ever since EADS was set up in 2000 out of a combination of the aerospace and defence interests in Germany, France and Spain, Berlin and Paris have always jealously sought to maintain the delicate balance of power in the company… The Financial Times reports that the German government has sparked a furious row by calling on EADS to put more Germans in top posts at aircraft subsidiary Airbus or risk losing Berlin’s development aid and export-credit guarantees.
