Section Twoaffect domestic U.S. operations. For example, the EC was
vehement in its attack on the Boeing and McDonnell Douglass
merger because of the threat to the EC’s Airbus. For some
time, U.S. takeovers of European companies have been viewed
as threats to the national identities of Italy, France, and
Germany. However, in this instance, the resistance was to a
purely U.S. merger.^134