Vipi The pronunciation English initials ofIt is not restricted to the massacred valuesWhen less oil need ideas of substitutionBecause Picasso is not a monolithic beingAccording to the Financial Times News CorpFinally we focus on the hero of the story6 the month previous but less did the consensus 0As such we behave as if we were an order Considerations which lead all right in ChinaThe degradation of the environment is obviousSo how can we challenge its shareholder Anne Lauvergeon, who now presents the results of Areva, is a school. Of Bercy, the assessment is mixed: "It is too aggressive," said an advisor to Christine Lagarde. Lafayette Street, in the Parisian stronghold of society, the point of view is not really very different: "we are an issue, then I fight," said Anne Lauvergeon. These days. The objective Obtain a recapitalization. "The problem is simple, said President of Areva, we are in a phase of strong development, which requires us to invest enormously." If it does not quickly increase our capital, I will be forced to reduce our investments drastically, point. "Last December, his relations significantly strained with Bercy. Jurisdiction a word that it dislikes refused to endorse its budget and asked him to review his copy. Rewritten by Anne Lauvergeon, the story is very different. "I presented two budgets to my Supervisory Board, one with and one without recapitalisation.". An approach to the limit of the provocation. A way, also, placing the State before its responsibilities. In Paris, it was jasé. Talk on financial mismanagement of the group. "The Scud, I have used, comments on it.". Attacks, I have a background of indifference that protects me. "As the February 6, the plane that brings in Flamanville, where she accompanied Nicolas Sarkozy on the EPR nuclear reactor site. It is surrounded by all his enemies of the time. Martin Bouygues, the man who wants to get their hands on its group; Patrick Kron, President of Alstom, who dreams of absorb to lead; Pierre Gadonneix, the pattern of EDF, who dispute his nuclear leadership. Comment of the President of Areva: "It was almost sympathetic."
Morocco refused
That it accepted the travel, it is the speech of the President of the Republic, touting the model of Areva. "I understood that he put the lid on the dismantling of the group, one of the tracks made by Alstom in us by pieces," she said. In the other scenario, that of a large merger Bouygues-Alstom-Areva, the crisis, she has had reason. "For us, it put EUR 10 billion on the table." However the market capitalization of Bouygues fell to $ 9 billion. "Saved, Areva Anne Lauvergeon wants to believe. "Some years ago, we were seen as anoraks without a future." We are now the object of the desire. Our integrated model is now copied everywhere. Need sometimes to make amends for having had reason. "The aplomb, always above. At the risk of do too much.
Because there is another reading of the speech by Nicolas Sarkozy in Flamanville. At no time the head of State gave the name of the President of Areva, noted critics. A name yet repeatedly writes the original milling. Instead of saying: "Areva has signed a new contract in India for 2-6 EPR and I count on Anne Lauvergeon to make it 6," Sarkozy simply declare: "I hope that it will be 6." And rather than "Areva must reflect on its industrial partnerships, I know Anne Lauvergeon made and the shareholder is also state", the President chose: "I hope now that the State adoption industry partnerships that would be more profitable to Areva.". Details without importance In the context of its relations complicated with the head of State, certainly not. Today, it is said in disgrace. "Since that she refused the post of Finance Minister offered to him by Nicolas Sarkozy, his relationship with the President is not clear." "There is a form of deception," says a close to the Elysee Palace.
Export success
Anne Lauvergeon does not deny that its ties with the President suffered from this episode. It has perhaps lost the position in which many observers the intended: the estate of Pierre Gadonneix head of EDF.
This is the mystery Lauvergeon. Brilliant engineer of Mines, former "sherpa" of François Mitterrand, adulated of some big French bosses, hated by others, admired abroad to the point that the Anglo-Saxon press has ranked it among the most powerful women of the planet, haloed of Areva export success, as evidenced by the memorandum of understanding signed in early February in India, never late to a murderous sentence... its course is anything but a long quiet river. "It is a fact, I is not indifferent. Perhaps because I have the less flexible than other spine, she says, I'm not looking to please.
The character is not easy. But Anne Lauvergeon also continued to pay two original errors. First, it is the constitution of Areva, a project which had step than supporters: "has the time, it should not do so, she says, the Treasury was headwind against the integrated model." It was the time of the shameful nuclear. We were talking about even dismantle the chain. Some it were not digested and always wanted to unravel what had been made.
A "niet" never forgiven
His second fault, perhaps the most serious, is refusing to save Alstom, while the company was bankrupt. It was in April 2003. Patrick Kron, the new boss of the group, just ask him to return to Alstom Power, activity turbines, for 5 billion. The answer is scathing: this is "niet". Part of the establishment French, Petri of economic patriotism, not the he never forgave.
Since then, it is the permanent guerrilla. The site of the Finnish EPR bogged down, to the point that in Bercy, it is estimated that the "losses are equivalent to the turnover. Opponents see the demonstration that it has never been a real industrial. Elle seeks closer ties of Technip or wants to get their hands on the manufacturer of wind turbine REpower Evidence of the erratic nature of its strategy, according to his critics. And when Siemens decides to break its partnership with its subsidiary Areva NP (ex-Framatome), is blamed for not having anticipated the divorce. The type of trial the revolt. "Since four years, I have asked the State to give visibility to Siemens." Nothing has been done, and today was just my fault!
"La vestale of the system.
The merits of the case, is that Anne Lauvergeon has a vision very arrested what must be a shareholder State. Eight years ago, the former Industry Minister Roger Fauroux had asked several people to draft a text on this topic. To Anne Lauvergeon was called: "search of a metronome." Translate: one who gives the rhythm. Obviously, it does not found him. "Four years I tirelessly advocates the opening or the increase of the capital, provides it." If nothing happens, I will have to give up some projects. This will be the calm of the cemeteries. Damage to a group that has such potential to export, able to create 40,000 France indirect jobs in 2009. It lacks a little breath.
In his speech of Flamanville, Nicolas Sarkozy partly replied. "Reflection on the future of Areva must lead soon," the President promised. Anne Lauvergeon will know then if, yes or no, it went too far. Today, the patron saint of Areva affects of not worrying about his own fate. "I am as la vestale of the system, said, that defends the temple."
