BRUSSELS – As Europe picks over the ruins of the mega-merger that would have created a world-beating new aerospace and defense giant, questions are being asked about the inglorious role that the European Union played in the fiasco. The European Commission’s failure to champion the $50 billion merger of the Franco-German European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), owner of Airbus, and the United Kingdom’s BAE Systems is being seen as a crucial factor in the deal’s collapse.
布鲁塞尔——随着欧洲在本应缔造出令世人震惊的全新航空航天及国防巨头的巨型合并所遗留的废墟上挑挑拣拣，人们不禁要问欧盟在这场惨败中究竟扮演了哪些不光彩的角色。欧盟委员会未能支持空客所有者法德欧洲航空防务及航天公司（EADS）及英国BAE系统公司案值500亿美元的合并，这被外界普遍视为此次交易失败的关键因素。