Interesting, you have a source on that please ?
https://www.thelocal.se/20120525/41042/ (not quite a smoking gun, there)
Airbus is not a French Company, it's a European company. France and Germany States hold each 11% of the shares, while Spain as about 4%. So that is less than 30% in States ownership shares. The rest is privately owned free float. True the main production line and headquarters are in Toulouse, France, but that doesn't make it a "French Company". It's as much German than French, with some Spanish too... Tittle is completely misleading and incorrect.
Other paper is behind a paywall for me.