alliance with nissan he soon had this company back on the road to success as well but a no holds a forty three percent stake in if than giving the french a lot of power in the company through to even appointing than is on board the japanese company has only a fifteen percent stake and ran no leaving it with no effective vote or power in its french partner a complete merger would have cemented nissen's possession as the weaker partner even though the company is performing better than ran over the as sting of goan could signify that the japanese automaker wants to expand its influence and its alliance with france's red now. it's complicated story to help us unravel this further let's turn to andre spicer the cast business school in london andrea we heard french and japanese officials met today on the subject what do you know they're talking about. on the one hand you can imagine the french officials perhaps making a case for going he's