Chapter 146 Visiting the Federal Republic of Germany

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Less than a month after the US embargo was promulgated, the German side could no longer hold on. They took the initiative to stand up and began to lobby the government to repeal the "Volkswagen Corporation Protection Act". At the same time, the German Federal Supreme Court came forward to mediate the conflict between foreign investors and the state government of Saxony. The power of the U.S. market ban is unbearable for any company. The public hopes to get a chance to re-establish itself in the U.S. market by taking the initiative to perform.

Therefore, under the unanimous opposition of the United States and major countries in Western Europe, the "Volkswagen Company Protection Act", which has been promulgated for more than ten years, will finally be thrown into the trash can of history. The biggest hurdle standing in front of investors has been removed, and Karim and Tonya can finally join forces to do what they want.

The various financial teams under Gorky began to erode the shares of Volkswagen Group in the open market. Blackstone, Bank of Colombia, and Mediterranean Shipping Company all bought shares of Volkswagen Group through their financial platforms. some foreigners. But so far, the regulators in the Frankfurt market only know that there is an equity relationship between Blackstone and Columbia Bank, and they are not clear about the relationship between MSC and them. Now, within the board of directors, the Saxony state government holds 30% of the shares Still ranked as the largest shareholder, Karim teamed up with Columbia Bank to take 27% of the shares, while MSC held 23% of the shares. Although the controlling stake is just over half, Karim and Tonya have already obtained the biggest right to speak in this company. The battle for shares in Volkswagen has come to an end for the time being. In the future, Golgi financial platforms will choose opportunities to increase their holdings, but this is no longer important when the overall situation is set.

Since Sergey received Sir Dennis's personal letter, he began to pay attention to the case of Matthias Rust. assigned to the judiciary. This means that Mathias Rust will not be prosecuted for espionage or other serious crimes against the security of the Soviet Union. Because the trials of these charges are generally not made public, and are conducted in secret in military courts.

After all, Seryozha had studied law at Leningrad University. He estimated that the Moscow prosecutors would prosecute Mathias Rust for illegal crossing of the border. Given Mathias Rust's status as a minor, The judge should not impose a heavy sentence. In short, Seryozha can explain this matter to Dennis, so after communicating with Yakovlev, Seryozha sent a reply letter to Dennis through private channels. In the letter, Seryozha Sand asked Sir Dennis to convey to Mr. Kohl, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, that the Soviet Union wanted to negotiate with the other party on the debt issue. When these two things are put together on a letter, the underlying message speaks for itself.

Now Mathias Rust, a bear boy, is so famous all over the world. Since someone from the Soviet Union has thrown an olive branch, then Germany will naturally follow suit, or else it will anger the Soviet Union and let them take this bear. If the child is killed, the Cole cabinet must be ousted by the opposition. Therefore, the Federal Republic of Germany readily agreed to the request of the Soviet Union.

So Seryozha took advantage of the invitation from Germany,

Also in order to avoid domestic political disputes, he left Moscow at the opportunity of this debt negotiation and went to Bonn, the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany. When the Soviet foreign economic and trade delegation led by Seryozha arrived in Bonn, Prime Minister Kohl personally went to the airport to welcome Seryozha's arrival. After a brief exchange between the two, the delegation boarded the bus and went to Bonn City Hall to attend the welcome event there.

This is the first time for Seryozha to set foot on the land of the Federal Republic of Germany. He has set two goals for his trip. The first is to convert the Soviet Union's foreign debts into energy contracts. The Soviet Union can use its rich mineral resources Resources are slowly repaying this foreign debt, and the second is to discuss a plan to cooperate in building an automobile factory. Now the Soviet Union has opened up some fields to the private economy and foreign investment. Before that, only red capitalists like Xiang Hamer could go to the Soviet Union to do business. However, according to Sergesha, these two goals are actually more important for the automobile factory. The debt negotiations were handed over to the chief economist and president of the Foreign Trade Bank, Gaidar.

So according to Seryozha's request, the federal government of Germany arranged a series of inspection activities for him, the first of which was the most developed automobile industry in the Federal Republic of Germany. Under the arrangement of the German side, Sergesha started his journey in the German automobile industry. Seryozha successively visited high-end car manufacturing companies such as Porsche and Mercedes-Benz to learn about their advanced experience in management and technology. At the same time, he also inspected well-developed car leasing and auto finance institutions in Germany. Seryozha intended to involve VTB in the auto and consumer loan business to promote the personal consumption market in the Soviet Union.

When visiting the Volkswagen factory, Piëch, the vice president of Volkswagen, personally accompanied Sergey Sha to visit Audi's car production line. The reason why I visited Audi is that this brand is very close to Gorky's Volga brand in terms of market positioning. Both models are mainly aimed at the business market, targeting middle-income people. At the end of the visit, Sergey asked the Volkswagen company's escort: "Would you like to cooperate with the Gorky Field Factory to establish a joint venture to produce our Volga and your Audi together?"

As soon as Seryozha said this, the Volkswagen executives present did not know how to answer this question. For them, if they enter the Soviet market just like entering China, Volkswagen is of course happy to see it. The Soviet Union not only has a vast territory and a large population, but the purchasing power of ordinary people is generally higher than that of China today. But this is a company on both sides of the Iron Curtain! Is it really that easy to cooperate?

"Mr. Minister, of course we are willing to cooperate with Huiguo! But we don't know much about the situation in your country yet, and the time seems immature. Maybe we can wait a few years to discuss this issue." The executive of Volkswagen declined road.

"Is there any difficulty? Our Secretary Gorbachev welcomes foreign companies to invest in the Soviet Union. If you really encounter any difficulties, you can directly contact me and I will help you solve them! I know, this matter You have to listen to the government, it doesn't matter, I will discuss this matter with Prime Minister Cole personally..."