Airbus Mil
I have a feeling that creating "Airbus Military" was one of the measures adopted when the "new team" took over from what Mr. F had left behind when he was ousted. CASA (as was) may well have been hopelessly overwhelmed by the A400M's requirements, having until then dealt only with much smaller cargo aircraft. Getting that end sorted would result in some (but not that much) delay to the programme, but the big killer was surely within Europrop. Whatever the reasons (and my ideas are as much supposition as anyone else's), it was surely Mr. Enders' and Mr. Gallois' job, under Stock Exchange rulings, to make sure that the danger to EADS/Airbus viability of going on or cancelling was openly aired.
Any support for the programme would surely amount to about 1 3/4 bn Euros per partner, more or less according to numbers on order. The A400M problem's not one of your "threatened" banks - and look how much they got without a governmental squeak (said somewhat in jest).
It seems to be flying quite nicely, though (which didn't save TSR2 ...)