France, which has clashed with the United States in a separate dispute between Airbus and Boeing over aircraft subsidies, gave an officially muted response, with the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy declining to comment. But Bernard Carayon, a member of Sarkozy's ruling center-right UMP party said the decision sowed the seeds of a potential clash with the United States, which he said was practicing economic nationalism. "The challenge to the air-refueling contract by the U.S. Government Accountability Office is a blow to our transatlantic relations," he said in a statement.
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