Chapter 932: Eastern Europe Front Station
With the arrival of the French foreign minister and the mayor of Paris, it is difficult for Lee Guang-woo to make some irritating remarks against the demonstrators.
The next thing is slowly resolved by these two, and this time he came to France to encounter such a thing, which made Li Guangyu quite uncomfortable in his heart, although his approach this time was somewhat inconsistent with his identity, but he would not regret it.
Naturally, reporters from all walks of life will not give up interviewing Li Guangyu, but they were all rejected by Gan Qin.
Near lunch, the foreign minister and the mayor of Paris entered the hotel to have a detailed conversation with Li Guangyu.
The Foreign Minister said: "Mr. Li, on behalf of the government, I apologize to you for the trouble caused to you by some of our nationals, France and the Lee consortium have cooperated and friendship for many years, and I hope that this incident will not become an obstacle to our deepening cooperation." ”
Now that France is about to carry out privatization reforms, it is in dire need of foreign capital, and the Lee consortium, as a guest invited by Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, has suffered such treatment.
If the Lee consortium stops negotiating the acquisition at this time, or even chooses to withdraw its capital, it will have an extremely bad impact, and more foreign capital will carefully consider the investment environment in France, and they do not want to become the second in the Lee consortium.
At present, France's economic development is not optimistic, otherwise there would not be a phenomenon of left-right co-governance.
The reason why Chirac was promoted to the position of prime minister is that he hopes that he can bring some changes to the French economy and learn from the economic reforms of the United Kingdom, so as to activate the development of the domestic economy.
Britain's drastic privatization reform in recent years has gradually brought the British economy out of the quagmire of economic development, and many enterprises have recovered their development profits after privatization, and the government not only does not need to provide financial subsidies to these enterprises, but has increased a lot of taxes because of the development of these enterprises.
The several groups acquired by the Lee consortium in the UK are good examples, whether it is Bentley, Heung Kong Telecom or the Xingyuan Group, which has brought good tax revenue to the UK, especially the Bentley Group and the British Telecom Group, which have brought a lot of jobs to the UK.
Although the competition between the left and right camps in France over the direction of economic development is fierce, the original intention of reversing the current weak economic situation in the country is the same.
Even if the development of a monopolistic consortium such as the Lee consortium does not conform to the purpose of the leftist camp, now that they are ready to privatize some enterprises, they will not oppose the arrival of Lee Guangyu, let alone expel the forces of the Lee consortium.
Li Guangyu said with a smile: "There are all kinds of people in the world, each with their own cognition and ideas, and I will not feel that the entire French people are hostile to me because of the remarks of a few people, and I believe that the vast majority of French people welcome me very much." France, as one of the leaders in Western Europe, has always been a market that I attach great importance to, and I am confident that our cooperation will be mutually beneficial. ”
Li Guangyu will not be so stupid as to give up the French market because a few French people are making trouble, and the more troublesome these people are, the more they want to buy French companies and let some of their proud enterprises become their own industries, which can slap them in the face more than a few pale words.
Li Guangyu just wants them to know that what they call the sick man of East Asia is making a lot of profits in their country, especially when some people are shouting in their mouths and buying a lot of their products in action, which will be a very interesting thing.
There are many places where there will be such a thing, shouting patriotism every day, to resist this and that, but in the end they are quite honest in action, they still use what they should use, and some even order or even buy at a higher price months in advance.
Li Guangyu's only fear is only two markets, one is Japan, the other is South Korea, many of his products in these two regions can not occupy any market, such as automobiles, so many years later, Bentley Group's market in these two regions is still very small.
The appeal here is the most powerful, there is no need for mobilization at all, buying domestic has become their first choice, they also recognize their own domestic products first, and then they will choose foreign products.
If Hengyu Supermarket Group had not cooperated with Ito-Yokado in Japan, it is estimated that it would have been squeezed out of the Japanese market long ago.
"Thank you very much Li Shengsheng for your understanding of us, our Mr. President is looking forward to meeting you in his office at 3 p.m., I wonder if Mr. Li has time?"
"Thank you very much Monsieur Mitterrand for the invitation, I will be on time at the presidential palace in the afternoon. ”
After the parliamentary discussions, the foreign minister and the mayor of Paris bid farewell to Lee Kwang Woo, who asked the two to have lunch together, but both of them excused themselves on official business.
After sending the two away, Gan Qin said with some concern: "Li Sheng, this time the problem may not be small, many high-level French officials and parliamentarians must be dissatisfied with us, and we are afraid that there will be no progress in the acquisition of France in the short term." ”
Whether it is the main reason for the Lee's consortium, this incident is all because of the Lee's consortium, and many people will transfer their anger directly to the Lee's consortium.
There was no shortage of voices opposed to privatization in France, but after this incident, the contradictions will only become more acute, and the Lee consortium wants to easily acquire a group is tantamount to a fool's dream.
The biggest problem is that the Li consortium has acquired a group, and if the employees within the group are all opposed, this is a big problem, and there is no benefit at all from such a group acquisition.
Li Guangyu said: "It doesn't matter, you don't have to worry too much, the French city has never been our main market in Western Europe, our focus has always been in the UK, whether it was or in the future, this positioning will never change, this market can win the best, you don't need to be too disappointed if you can't take it, and the springboard for entering Eastern Europe in the future will not be France." ”
In order to seize the Eastern European market in the future, Austria, the current neutral country, is the best choice for Lee Guangyu, and France is not in his plan.
The main reason why Li Guangyu attaches great importance to the French market at present is that in the future, the European Union will mainly be driven by Britain, France and Germany, and the French market is indeed a good unilateral market in Western Europe.
But this is not the reason why he focuses on France, where many industries are still firmly controlled by the government even in the 21st century, and there is no comparison with the British market, where he can control more industries, and a lot of private capital is more willing to invest in the UK.
Compared with France, on the contrary, the economic transformation of Eastern Europe will be more open in the future, and private capital in many industries can be involved, so Li Guangyu will not spend too much energy in the French market, and it is likely that there will be a thankless situation here.
This is a proud people, even if they were beaten a little badly in both world wars, but their innate pride still feels good about themselves.
Moreover, strikes happen from time to time in Western Europe, and Li Guangyu is not willing to let his subordinates encounter such a bad thing.
This will be more of his sales market, and it will definitely not become his large-scale manufacturing market, Li Guangyu only trusts Greater China and Northeast Asia in terms of production, and Southeast Asia does not trust much of it.
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