Airbus A400M: close to a solution
(BRUSSELS2) A solution seems to be emerging to free the Airbus A400M, the European military transport plane, from the bad "hole" where it fell. The 7 countries participating in the program (1) are close to making a new joint offer to the manufacturer, if we are to believe information from Berlin.
LThe buyer countries would thus be ready to bear 3,5 billion euros of additional costs, according to DPA (the German press agency): about 2 billion euros in various contributions and 1,5 billion euros in loans. This brings the States closer to the request of the industrialist who asked for 5,2 billion euros in additional financing.
The possibility would also be given to countries that want a cheaper device price not to take all the technical options planned at the start. EADS must now accept this offer and parliaments must also approve it (the Bundestag, in particular, an ardent defender of budgetary rigour).
(1) Germany, France, Spain, United Kingdom, Turkey, Belgium, Luxembourg
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