EADS offers to help core buyers, M'sia only buyer outside Europe

SEVILLE, Spain Europe's Airbus pledged on Monday to help address financial difficulties faced by core European buyers of its A400M airlifter, as it tries to prevent some of the countries poaching its own exports by reselling aircraft they cannot afford.

The comments from the head of Europe's aerospace giant came as France predicted a buoyant export market for the long-awaited troop and cargo carrier, which was formally inaugurated in a rain-soaked ceremony in southern Spain on Monday.