French finance minister says compromise can be reached over U.S.-EU trade sanctions

PARIS (Reuters) – French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday he thinks a compromise can be reached over sanctions that the United States and the European Union have imposed on each other over civil aviation subsidies for Boeing Co and Airbus .

“I think that a compromise can be reached in the coming weeks, there is a possibility to build an agreement between the U.S. and Europe on this Airbus-Boeing case,” Le Maire said in an interview with CNN.

(Reporting by Geert De Clercq; editing by Jonathan Oatis)