PARIS, April 5 (Reuters) - European buyers will give their long-awaited final backing to a 3.5-billion-euro rescue deal for the troubled Airbus A400M airlifter at a signing on Thursday, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
The bailout by seven NATO nations was designed last year to prevent Europe's largest defence project collapsing under cost overruns and delays with the loss of 10,000 jobs. But it was threatened by last-minute objections especially from Britain.
Ministers from Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey have been summoned to the Spanish city of Seville, where the plane is built, to sign a formal amendment to the 20-billion-euro military contract on Thursday.
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The bailout by seven NATO nations was designed last year to prevent Europe's largest defence project collapsing under cost overruns and delays with the loss of 10,000 jobs. But it was threatened by last-minute objections especially from Britain.
Ministers from Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey have been summoned to the Spanish city of Seville, where the plane is built, to sign a formal amendment to the 20-billion-euro military contract on Thursday.
(Reporting by Tim Hepher)Keywords: AIRBUS A400M/ (+331 4949 5452 paris.equities@reuters.com) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2011. 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.