Alarmed by anti-EU surge, Airbus chief urges staff to vote

BERLIN (Reuters) - Alarmed by a surge of anti-EU populists, the chief executive of European aerospace firm Airbus Group has taken the unusual step of writing to the group's 144,000 employees to urge them to vote in this week's European Parliament elections.

"I didn't tell my colleagues what to vote, but I said 'Go and vote'," Tom Enders told Reuters in an interview, saying he hoped radical, anti-European parties would "get as few votes as possible".