EUI am surprised the EU has lasted this long. the northern and souther tiers are completely different animals and are not able to compete in a competive way. when you have a system that tell you how much you can grow or build and then tell you how much you can sell and charge. also the northern tier has such an advantage in industrial innovation that make the system even worse. however they did build and engineer a tunnel and build the very competive a300 airbus---better than the boeing 337.