Finmeccanica: Group is keen to target emerging markets
[at Financial Times] - Pier Francesco Guarguaglini will be attending his 12th Farnborough Air Show this week. At 73, the industry veteran and chief executive and chairman of Italy's Finmeccanica shows no signs of slowing down.

Austerity cruises on to Farnborough's radar
[at Financial Times] - Captains of industry, military top brass and government ministers will this weekend gather for the biennial jamboree that is the UK's Farnborough air show.

Thales caught in all too familiar French political trap
[at Financial Times] - Thales and EADS appear to be suffering from the same political disease. The EADS story is all too familiar. For years, the European aerospace and defence group has been hamstrung by its French and German political masters.