PARIS, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The French state plans to inject 5 billion euros ($6.5 billion) into banks with the aim of financing airplane purchases to help European planemaker Airbus, a French government source said on Sunday.
'There is indeed a plan to lend 5 billion euros to the banks to finance Airbus contracts,' the source said, confirming an earlier report in the business newspaper Les Echos.
(Reporting by Anna Willard, writing by Estelle Shirbon) ($1=.7719 Euro) Keywords: AIRBUS/GOVERNMENT (estelle.shirbon@reuters.com, +33 1 4949 5342, Reuters Messaging: estelle.shirbon.reuters.com@reuters.net) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2009. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.
'There is indeed a plan to lend 5 billion euros to the banks to finance Airbus contracts,' the source said, confirming an earlier report in the business newspaper Les Echos.
(Reporting by Anna Willard, writing by Estelle Shirbon) ($1=.7719 Euro) Keywords: AIRBUS/GOVERNMENT (estelle.shirbon@reuters.com, +33 1 4949 5342, Reuters Messaging: estelle.shirbon.reuters.com@reuters.net) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2009. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.