Nissan moves against its legendary chairman officially ousting carlos ghosn after his arrest on financial misconduct charges but the french have yet to act on the star executive who also beats we know. And the European Union may be a Single Market but its not an even Playing Field for fostering high tech business we look at whether the e. U. Can really create a digital Single Market. Im Stephen Beers in berlin thanks for joining us the board of nissan has voted to fire chairman carlos cohn he remains in jail on suspicion of falsifying Financial Reports on japanese car the japanese carmakers french partner renault is meanwhile keeping going on as Chief Executive at least temporarily naming an interim c. E. O. Just yesterday a major rift is threatening to open between the two companies endangering the profitable alliance the french and japanese economy ministers even met today over the matter. It was an equally awaited decision in tokyo and around the world
for hours nissens top executives held consultations with their c. E. O. Hero to a psych hour then it became clear go and must leave his position as chairman of the site is expected to be his temporary successor. Carstone has clones from the plush surroundings of his Executive Suite to a spartan cell behind the walls of This Tokyo Jail Rumors that management was behind his Fall From Grace spread like wildfire. Its a source of coup de tat by nissan those who didnt like him tonights him internally to make him full. Carlos ghosn is one of the most successful also Company Bosses of all time in One Thousand Nine Hundred Six he began restructuring struggling french carmaker ran zero three years later he engineered the 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 a sand 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 in reno leaving it with no effective vote or power in its french partner a complete merger would have cemented possession as the weaker partner even though the company is performing better than ran oh the as sting of goan could signify that the japanese automaker wants to expand its influence and its alliance with frog this right now. Its complicated story to help us unravel this a little further lets turn to andre spicer the cast Business School in london Andre We Heard French and japanese officials met today on the subject what do you know when theyre talking about. On the one hand you can imagine the french officials perhaps making a case for going hes a representative of all of right now representative the French Company and also has
turned around the company the japanese officials i could imagine are presenting the evidence which has been put to the knesset and bold about misuse of company and sits but also misreporting of pay this would probably raise logic questions about Corporate Governance in the group after all if a company cannot tell you how much exactly their Chief Executive is getting paid what can i tell you now you heard in the piece there that theres some speculation about whats really behind this or if there is something more to the story is there any reason to believe that the accusations presented by nissan are true well at this stage is theres not that wall we have is the accusations which in essence has put forward clearly theres a clear interest on the part of newsstand to push forward these allegations and and present them fairly but on the other side you could argue that theres a clear interest on the part of to to cement and keep their position and try and
keep together the alliance which if going indeed does go could begin to fall apart or at least be called into question now both sides say that they want a profitable alliance to continue but obviously they face a lot of challenges maybe you can tell us about the. Well the most the biggest challenge is some ways is the question about the equality between the different groups so we know that. Nissen makes around about sixty percent more cars than what then does renault its partner bought renault holds forty three percent of control in sound so it means that a rhino is the stronger controlling partner despite being in a weaker position theres also kind of questions about japanese Corporate Governance at stake here so japan has been through a kind of larger reform of Corporate Governance in the last few years this is
boortz into the prospect that logic companies could from external companies could have a stake in the japanese economy and perhaps this is an example of some of these anxieties being expressed through this particular tussle obviously a lot of National Interest at stake here two well known Car Companies with big histories where would this alliance be or would this alliance be where it is today without going considering all these complications yeah dawn was the absolute lynchpin of this alliance is the kind of ideal they have also man some people have called him so its spent his average month one week in france one week in japan then two weeks anywhere in between so he was clearly trying to bring together a Global Alliance now with him removed its like removing the lynch pin which holds these companies together which then brings many analysts to question whether theyre going to move towards closer integration such as some analysts was speculating a merger was on the cards or begin to kind of go their own separate ways and that
would raise rather large questions for the actual future strategy of h three of these companies so plenty more to watch in the weeks ahead Andras Pfizer in london many thanks thank you. Think of high Tech Startups and you might think of Silicon Alley in the u. S. Or china where The Tech Scene is flush with cash but youre also both Success Stories like spotify or skype the market there is fragmented however and Member States vary in terms of Digital Investment so can the e. U. Create a single digital market Computer Programming begins at a very early age in a stone in the small Baltic States is regarded as a pioneer of digitalisation its where skype was founded and became a Global Player digital conditions differ widely in the European Union global successes like skype are rare nordic and baltic countries are way ahead of the e. U. Pact though when it comes to Digital Development denmark tops the blocks index for
economic and social digitalisation followed by sweden and finland the stone is the ninth position germany comes in fourteenth pretty much midfield in the e. U. Used twenty eight members rumania is the digital taillight for high Speed Digital network is paradise for business and some countries authorities now even offer Digital Services to citizens but with much key business and Government Data now accessible on the web countries are increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks. So what role can the e. U. Itself play in fostering digital to vellum meant christian asked European CommissionVice President. Who hails from a stonier whether the e. U. Can become a Global Player in the digital sector. For example when talking about robotics of all time period systems europe is to be doing Grandly Weddle and also when speaking
about Solutions Based on not officially intelligence using small volumes of states and then those solutions are greatly here in europe the best in the world so we can be proud about some kind of solutions we already created here in europe and when thinking about Artificial Intelligence about industrial data then i think the europe as a really good chance is to compete with a much bigger countries and a much Bigger Service provider this why does germany occupy only in The Field Of Vision and europe at best what needs to change we have to great teach the Single Market in the European Union and instead just have huge Single Markets with more than Twenty Hundred Million healthy customers in fact we have twenty eight relatively small markets and for startups for. The young companies
its pretty complicated to scale up here in europe we when we will continue with the fragmented europe weve sent the really bad message to our small feet stay at home or go to the United States where they already have huge Single Markets with more free hundred million have the customers of course we dont want to send thats kind of message is to always start up so we have to create a Single Market in the European Union and here you have a problem with germany i dont think we have a problem with the chairman and when speaking about Artificial Intelligence and then im very happy about our National Strategy we share the same violin and even actions we are planning to take or they are exactly the same on the level of their p. And you own a gun here in germany i think. That in many heel Member States including in germany people they caught that this understanding that when acting alone we are not able
to compete with much beer countries or who are Global Service providers. Im talking about High Performance computing Kovach Contemn Computing About Cybersecurity but also about your Artificial Intelligence we have to join our forces in the air appear and the only and only then we will be a bill to compete with those Global Service providers are countries like the United States of america or china is a Vice President thank you very much for the interview about them. Thousands of tunisians have taken part in a general strike to demand higher wages the demonstration has grounded planes and closed schools a powerful labor union called the strike after a break down and negotiate with the government the union wants a monthly salary hike of up to thirty euros for all Civil Servants the protests calm as the Government Faces pressure from International Lenders to reform its economy. And thats it for us im Stephen Thanks for joining
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