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 the u. S. Will 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 coned 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 their profitable lions the french and japanese economy ministers even met today over the
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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 each three of these companies so plenty more to watch in the weeks ahead under a spicer 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 you re 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 it s where skype was founded and became a global player digital conditions differ widely in the european union global