Pressure is mounting on the UK government to sell Westinghouse, the profitable American arm of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL), to one of its compatriots amidconcerns about foreign companies threatening national security by buying US companies.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb While the UK’s publicly-owned BNFL has managed Westinghouse since 1999, the prevailing view among politicians in Washington is that the major nuclear engineering company on its soil should be owned by an American firm. The position has serious implications for some of the bidders for the Pittsburgh-based group, a sale which could raise up to $2bn (\u00a31.1bn).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Among the heavyweight contenders that have made bids are Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a long-time business partner of Westinghouse, and Toshiba. South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries has entered the fray. All three are likely to lose out in the auction, making the most likely contenders to clinch the prize the US titan General Electric, which has teamed up with the New York-based hedge fund Cerberus, and the Louisiana-based Shaw.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t(…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bb Those stepping up the campaign to keep sensitive businesses in American hands include Richard Shelby, the chairman of the Senate banking committee. He is among a group of influential politicians who want a more robust investigation into potential national security threats when foreign companies bid for American ones. The move comes after China’s Cnooc bid for Unocal, the California-based oil company, this summer, causing widespread anxiety on Capitol Hill. Such bids are vetted by the White House-controlled committee on foreign investments. The committee, CFIUS, did not have to rule on the Unocal situation in the end because Cnooc pulled out.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 10 octobre 2005 \u00e0 09H10<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
En d\u00e9pit des r\u00e9criminations m\u00e9prisantes et sarcastiques de la grande presse europ\u00e9enne pour la politique fran\u00e7aise de patriotisme \u00e9conomique, force est de constater que l’id\u00e9e ne fait que traduire des comportements courants chez ceux-l\u00e0 m\u00eames qui en sont d\u00e9sign\u00e9s comme les contre-mod\u00e8les. Les Am\u00e9ricains, puisqu’il s’agit d’eux bien s\u00fbr, vont plus loin encore. Non contents… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4626,4625,4779],"class_list":["post-66909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-cnooc","tag-unocal","tag-westinghouse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}