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Boeing wins conditional EU approval for Spirit takeover

( October 14, 2025, 15:04 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Boeing has won EU approval to buy its supplier Spirit AeroSystems, after agreeing to sell to Airbus all of Spirit’s business that currently supplies the European plane manufacturer. It also agreed to divest a Spirit site in Malaysia that supplies Airbus and other companies to Composites Technology Research Malaysia. The European Commission said those remedies addressed concerns that Boeing could stop or restrict the supply of aerostructures to other aircraft suppliers, and gain access to commercially sensitive information on Airbus that it could use to its own advantage. Statement follows....

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