Those silly Zeropeans

Crash landing. At about the same time that the EU made the madcap comic Lisbon statement, it was trumpeted that Airbus was the way to go and that the European company Soviet-style highly subsidized bureaucracy would drive Boeing from the skies. Little Europeans must learn that you should never fly higher than you are willing to fall. Look for Galileo (knock-off European GPS) and Quaero (knock-off European search engine meant to compete with Google's promotion of American cultural supremacy) to suffer a similar fate.