Has Airbus ever repaid the government loans for the development / start up of the airliners? ie the money that Boeing moan about (not that they've also had (diguised) government launch aid)
If Airbus hasn't repaid, maybe its time for the Governments to ask for it.
It was very frustrating to go to A400M meetings and be told that manpower had been transfered to the A380F and the A350 projects at a time when neither had orders and it was plain to all that the A400M was slipping.