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airbus was made as a very deliberate political project from various european countries to stay competitive in the airline bussiness. Mind you this happened aro
by kazen44 3y ago
airbus was made as a very deliberate political project from various european countries to stay competitive in the airline bussiness.
Mind you this happened around the same time many foundations of a lot of european institutions where formed, and airbus is the primary example of a intra-european company in both its bussiness form (being an S.E[0]) aswell as in the way its products get build across different member states.
Airbus has done the thing that the EU aims to do on a political scale, merge many different smaller european entities to stay competitive against both the US and China on the global scale.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea
- yongjik 3y agoWhich makes Airbus even more impressive, TBH. How many "deliberate political project from various countries to stay competitive in the X business" can you think of that actually became successful?
- truculent 3y agoBoeing feels interesting through this lens, too - tracking the rise and decline of American business culture
- midland_trucker 3y agoArianespace of course a huge success for a brief period, until it wasn't.
- fomine3 3y agoInteresting question. ASML?
- berkes 3y agoASML was one company formed out of Philips' microchip division (NXP the other part from that division). So it's not a company built by politicians from many European companies AFAIK.