For a government to go so out of its way to make sure Alstom didn't sell it's train tech to GE and then turn around and let the Italians snag this order is a real head-scratcher.
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> This will not sit well with the Alstom workers and
> unions in a region already losing jobs to Eastern
> Europe amidst a general disindustrialization of
> France. If I were Marine Le Pen I would really
> get on this case.
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> I wonder if the EC-EU will go the way of the
> Soviet Union over time. Local interests
> subordinated to those of the big power, in this
> case Berlin instead of Moscow.