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self of all his problems before retiring of france. had its industry its economy and its sovereignty nevertheless been preserved by our want to borg. was it a total or partial american victory was the alliance with the french the internet delusion or reality. would you. come to speak to it. on film. today. and i'm one of these sort of back to the twenty first of june twenty fourth team are no man to book terms the sale of l. storm into an alliance three joint ventures a created run equally by general electric and alstom the first and networks the second in renewable energy and the third in nuclear power it appeared to be an
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equal partnership between france and the united states. to take. on an oil. price a. she moans i will get. divorced she said i would use good. news some ask simple you sure. it was you know that jeep who volunteered. no more. quip obviously took you multiple resolution i did action there he did it at reform and not like wow. you know it on his own. five months later on november the fourth emanuel mccrone concluded the sale the final agreement turns out quite different. joint venture companies are no longer
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equally shared with us the deal covering nuclear is controlled more than eighty percent by general electric. this comes with an option for them to sell its shares in twenty eighteen twenty nineteen in other words the energy sector could in just a few years be in u.s. hands as per the original plan. to management and i think this discovery angered a number of m.p.'s there you saw it as a simple reshuffling of the green once defined by the alliance a moment says sure to go on. a bit. beyond the only.
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we need. it to be agreement. about. us to use it. more or less or and it was as if. we. got a monkey. how did himself come to talk about an alliance in twenty fourteen else dom's purchase today. if you don't know how to judge this early. early trick to me on. do fred lefebvre all said. the former minister had forgotten that the person in charge of that
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agreement was himself going to be. fair. dawn was going up to new york both to see her did i see joy to know that that. is about it this is i mean. let's. say no more to bargain sister however that the agreement reached did provide real leeway it could be. me. who leave the early to walk maybe even potty on every measure. buffet my proposal. succeeded in obtaining two prerogatives the partial nationalisation of would first
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of all from twenty eighteen on would allow the state to block the total sale of energy related activities then concerning nuclear activities the state maintained its sovereignty through a right of veto but france has never used either of these two shields today. no longer mentions energy sector activity and general electric's makes no reference to the joint ventures. was taken off factory buildings and replaced by general electric signs the alliance never really came into existence. the next year now dawn. may.
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when the time came to see. government representatives met at the. present to greet dishes on the sale. then assistant secretary of the elise a is unconditionally campaigning for general electric and is not in a position to intervene legitimately this is not a controlled economy this is not venezuela the next day. welcomes the final agreement. to a new. negus yes you're. going to meet someone at all we do.
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when charles many two months later emanuel macron replaced arnold want to bug at the ministry of economy and in charge of the case the partial nationalisation driven by wanted berg vanishes with him now seems free to sell its whole energy business. what might the consequences of that purchase be for fifty years france has invested in nuclear power and now has fifty eight reactors producing seventy five percent of the country's energy those plants therefore represent three quarters of french power production each reactor has two main parts first the nuclear reactor designed by a river that's the part that involves radioactivity the second referred to as the conventional part and manufactured by allstar is built around the famous arab el turbine the plants are operated by e.t.f. and through those three companies france once enjoyed the rare privilege of
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a comprehensive nuclear industry but that energy autonomy is now in question. and in one controlled manner to secure it in as your nose will upon nuclear. but by digital crucial do you know the last you know nuclear bomb gallup more cultural world tell it or if it's legal it has enough you don't hear of it because it it in d.c. keep it. comports on a screen again all the other eleven want to push it but have a take a look at it it costs if you give the superimposed year the fia nuclear forces gingery are far says see him it was an exceptional and you cannot sum up with any department expose yourself about him and not. the norm constitute a stronger valma some time you click on the and it hardly. if you. can but you said all single book you still see me don't. need to be nice to.
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i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. harlan kentucky. voices the wall street families. a coma any city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the polarizer said i'd. love to these people the survivors of a world disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger
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that if anything ever happened to the phone lines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened. soon you don't recall go you don't usually go to. the nuclear plant says city pulse and promote. just what i say to some promote most of it could do to. somebody you know what. it was it be merely don't days until we come to school is a make up a woman. says can you where you will be silly young. men and so you you deserve. don't good. to see the passes will be made
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and they could these objective. it a strategy that fuels. it be allowed the effect. that it will turn on us that independence is already under severe strain february twenty sixth team the american group wants to renegotiate contracts with e.d.f. to put pressure on them they put a hold on maintenance of french power plants. c.o.v. the gaffe declares that the interruption imposed exceptional safety measures going beyond the usual emergency plans if the american group is capable of such blackmail for a simple contract renegotiation today what might it do in the event of a political dispute with the united states tomorrow. don't you do need. to treat me.
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as a new ways you knew very well be. also as. it is on. america he said but you're going to join us and. he. soon often difficult when there's a national move they did. start showing you know what it. was that it. costs. seven. been kept. out of. key yacht stories in the best friend you care. how did it teach. us to draft also you know fun just to yell computer t.v. don't amend is a national on. another disturbing consequence is that i'll stop. has designed manufactured and maintained key assets for the french navy in particular sixty one
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is w. turbocharger on the shoulder goal the craft carrier that affects a tangible part of french sovereignty if not its military abandon. it but he didn't. he didn't it didn't for the american. said. he selected he did note. about. the new book is that you've. seen one is a quote of the emotional. and .
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what is economy. to a large meal c.d.c. but it's how could such a sale be concluded outcome the inaction of the political class in this case be explained did an aggressive acquisition by americans and the loss of a whole strategic sector really take place right under the noses of france's m.p.'s not really just two weeks after the scandal broke former deputy mayor. called for a commission of inquiry commission to look at. it only. it in this is how do you work it could be any demar. fair celebrate this you defect. yet in the national assembly each opposition group has a drawing right meaning that it can open a commission of inquiry without majority or government approval called for a commission on the seventh of may twenty forty. twenty thirteen to june twenty fourth scene the opposition have used it's drawing right that right has never been
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used neither over. any other case. but you know what they are allowed yen. it takes only a cursory look into some of the names of the main players in the general electric. motors multiple links with the political class even before else dumb shareholders had validated the sale to people representing state interests resigned and accepted positions with the power of the banks of general electric and a year before his contract ended director of the state but as a patient agency. was hired by bank of america advisory bank for the recruit an. advisor and negotiator joining the case was hired by
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a general electric's advisory bank that's just two strands in an incredibly dense mesh. vice president of the publicists agency employed by his one of nicolas sarkozy's longest standing collaborators as his director of communication from when he was first elected as mayor of new we to when he became president of the republic meanwhile general electric retained the legal services of claude and. co-founded by the former head of state for its communications group in gage to have. an old political friend of mine who will. once again general electric chooses credit. swe says advisory bank it's a vice president is false well who said who was also a mentor to the minister of defense his chief of staff the coordinator of the merger with general electric. is the husband of valerie plame chris president of the elder from. and the president of general electric fronts cloud again not just
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the wife of their of a game form a human being minister together they are one of the most influential couples on the french right none of these relationships would probably have favored the issue being seriously addressed you know that by the french state nor by the opposition is that what a commission of inquiry was never before that maybe no direct evidence but some questions remain. your dilemma is all oh it's just a dossier if it demoed deja. pool. somebody will bend u.c.l.a. it you'll see how many operate you may submit but yet it is all it to be you know is all saudi city of paris a commune. on it it. is far from being an isolated case. other leading french companies in the energy
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sector are being prosecuted by america the other french nuclear giant river could soon find itself on the d.o.j. is raid on another french company targeted by the us is extraterritorial judicial system becomes a threat to french industry. the data is only she took data and. you have you don't totally conclude bodies i mean it john you would have to do that because you want him. to put on the all is on me for you you don't like to see it was your fate which also. unique own party just wanted to make it in it was eight dignity. was a look at daily kilometers to walk us. through a gate devalued by day idea behind an easy date the idea point of focused our young men. who had been the host who knew it would have felt it had been big when if
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you've been fortunate have been because he don't so if you google him is it by finney jadhav was think until please hold on could be mental disease as you need an abuse center shows i know was mcconnell seen. said a few. i don't look any salsa on those it is just really. built on name. your kids. will the french authorities day and all the even able to counter these american offensives apart from a few low key legal efforts new strategy has yet been proposed to arrest the bleeding meanwhile some turning their eyes to alstom strain the only only french own sector of the company and they wonder if that national know how will also be swallowed by a foreign group. such
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the thing about saudi arabia is they is the oil as a weapon and if they get too close to investigating what's going on over there they push the price of oil up now on the last ten years because of fracking in america america position to stop us energy independent and no longer subject to the political pressures that can be borne upon them from opec and the saudis so we're going to see a real test of this because. all of the litany of horrors coming out of saudi arabia is making people feel.
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pranking gave americans no longer job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money. i can make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like the gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and the bus station a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down so much they lost their jobs got laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. it's a tough reality to deal with. and
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you know when that little. bit about look right here while. writing about other. man from florida is charged with sending a string of mild poems to a number of senior u.s. democrats and could now face up to fifty eight years in prison. european court of human rights in the pale that had sought to defend the defaming of prophet mohammed is freedom of speech guess debate the issue. we should have free speech and it goes as far as saying it.
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