Airbus calls on EU to clear tariff conflict with US

Business threat: Visitors watch an Airbus plane as it is about to land at Berlin airport. Trade tensions between the EU and the US threaten to bog down Airbus and its US rival Boeing Co as they try to claw their way back from the worst aviation crisis in history. — AFP

NEW YORK: Airbus SE chief executive officer Guillaume Faury called on the European Union to patch up its shaky partnership with the US, warning that the bloc risks falling behind as other regions recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

“Asia is going faster than the rest of the world, ” Faury said at Business Day 2020, a German economic forum. “I’m really worried we’ll emerge late and weakened.”