Airbus and the EU Dream - Crashing?

Like some previous formative totalitarian dictatorships the EU has trumpeted various taxpayer financed grand projects to distract the citizenry while their rights and freedoms were being purloined. Thus this summer we could watch in astonished disbelief as the European Space Agency crashed a slow motion solar battery powered toy onto the surface of the moon, proclaiming it a triumph while being unable to offer any benefits whatsoever that the expensive project could yield. In my experience, however, nothing in the EU project has been more pointless but excited the federalists more than the apparent success of Airbus versus Boeing. Sometimes the emotion and rhetoric on this supposed achievement has been almost shocking in its intensity. I always suspected that with the amount of EU Propaganda and multi-government involvement a slip-up of potentially disastrous dimensions would surely arrive. This report in the Engineering Section of The Times, indicates that moment has now perhaps arrived. How will the powers that be now distract their hundreds of millions of fellow citizens from their pointless loss of democracy?