Airbus wants clarity from UK over long-term relationship after Brexit
London — Airbus wants Britain to provide more clarity over the country’s future relationship with the EU, or risk losing investment, the France-based aircraft maker’s CEO has said. "We must have more clarity on the UK’s long-term relationships, not just for the next 20 months," CEO Tom Enders said in an opinion piece in the Financial Times on Wednesday. "Britain must recognise that future investments are not a given." His comments come less than a month after Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May agreed a transition deal with European leaders to keep existing trade ties unchanged for 21 months after Brexit, a move seen by politicians as a way of providing businesses with certainty. But Enders said Britain needed to go further. He called for Britain to remain part of the EU aviation safety certification agency, European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), to allow Airbus’s planes to gain the necessary approvals to let them fly, and said that its business depended on aircraft parts and peop...
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