Wednesday, September 16, 2009

European countries producing Opel did not divide 4.6 billion euros

As will be allocated state aid allocated by the Government of Germany to save the company's Opel, is still not clear. Meanwhile, automakers BMW and Volkswagen are going to cease cooperation with the concern Magna.

Tuesday, 15 September, the Ministry of Economy of Germany met representatives of the economic ministers of Germany, Austria, Spain, Belgium, Poland and Britain, as well as the European Commission. Nevertheless, as stated by the Ministry of Economy of Germany, to distribute state aid amounting to 4.6 billion euros allocated by the Government of Germany to save the Opel, it was not possible due to lack of sufficient information. The meeting in Berlin insisted on giving them a detailed plan for absorption of the concern Opel, which should prepare the Austrian-Canadian concern Magna, as well as examination of the financial supervisor.



At the first meeting of representatives of countries where the production capacity Opel, reigned "friendly atmosphere," the report says the Ministry of Economics of Germany. Nonetheless, doubts about a recovery of the German automaker retained. Industry Minister Miguel Sebastian Gascon said that his Government considered it more convincing plan for absorption of Opel, prepared by a Belgian investment fund RHJI - second only to Magna leading contender to buy the German campaign.

Criticizing the government of Germany, actively lobbied the consortium led by Magna, made and Belgium. After reorganization plan of the concern involves the closure of Opel plant in Antwerp. In turn, the EU Commissioner for Competition Neelie Cruz has recently said that intends to carefully check that is not used if approved by the Brussels anti-crisis support for protectionist purposes.

German avtostroitelnye, BMW and Volkswagen are going to cease cooperation with Magna. "Now we are not dealing with a supplier of automotive components, but with the automaker," - leads the agency dpa words CFO BMW Frederick Ayhinera. To this we Ayhiner added: "From now on we must take into account the risk of leakage of our know-how to the new competitor." For its part, the head of auto giant Volkswagen (VW) Martin Winterkorn also expressed concern about the possible use of technology in factories VW Opel and said a review of models of cooperation with Magna. In turn, chairman of Volkswagen, Ferdinand Pieh said: "We as a concern not like it when our suppliers have become our competitors."

Meanwhile, Russia's presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich called the decision on the eve of General Motors' decision to sell Opel company Magna and Russia's Sberbank to a sign that the U.S. is ready for a full-integration of Russia into the global economy. According Dvorkovich, such a long negotiation process has demonstrated that the world has powerful forces opposed to the economic integration of Russia. However, Russia's president, aide, politicians - Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Barack Obama - have not yielded to the force.

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