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BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - Ford (F.N) will end production at its Blanquefort plant in France by late August next year after rejecting a rescue deal for the factory, in a move which drew the ire of France’s finance minister due to the risk of large-scale job losses. The French government had this autumn expressed optimism that the plant in southwest France and its 850 employees would be saved, but Ford told the plant’s works council that it had rejected the bid made by transmission supplier Punch Powerglide.
“Despite thorough and rigorous talks over the past nine months, and the best efforts of both sides, the plan put forward by the potential buyer presents significant risks,” Ford said in a statement to the works council, “We do not believe that the prospective buyer’s plans offer the level of security or protection, or limit the risk of possible future job losses, that we would like for the employees,” added the company, The luxe darth vader cufflinks with onyx likely job losses will be a blow for President Emmanuel Macron, coming at a time of public rebellion over his reforms to liberalize the economy, including an easing of labor laws, and battles to haul down the country’s stubbornly high unemployment..
Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire in September had described Punch Powerglide as a “credible, solid buyer,” and Le Maire reacted angrily to Ford’s decision, and called on the U.S. company to change its mind. “I am revolted, I am sickened by this decision whose only justification is for Ford to get its shares to rise on the stock market,” Le Maire told the French Senate. “I want to attack the cowardice of Ford. For the last three days I have been looking to talk to them, and they didn’t even have the courage to talk to the minister of finance and economy over the phone,” added Le Maire.
LONDON (Reuters) - Huawei’s relations with British authorities hit a low last month when a top official walked out of a meeting with luxe darth vader cufflinks with onyx the Chinese company over its perceived failure to fix security holes in its products, sources familiar with the talks told Reuters, Although Huawei responded with a pledge to spend $2 billion on a security overhaul to address the British concerns, tensions between London and the world’s biggest producer of telecoms equipment remain high as it fights U.S.-led allegations of Chinese state spying...
“Previously, you very much had British civil servants saying ‘please do this’ and asking rather than telling or banging the table,” a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. “Huawei HQ now have the message.”. The fraught nature of the meeting between Huawei executives and Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) underlines the challenge facing the company in convincing Western governments its equipment is safe. A spokesman for the NCSC - part of Britain’s GCHQ spy agency - said the meeting in late November “ended prematurely because of increased tensions”, but declined to provide any further details because the conversations were private.
Huawei did not respond directly to questions about the meeting or its talks with the NCSC, but said British officials had “identified some areas for improvement in our engineering processes.”, “We are grateful for this feedback and committed to addressing these issues,” it said in a statement, Huawei has come under intense scrutiny as countries including Australia, New Zealand and Japan follow U.S, moves to restrict access to their markets, citing security concerns, luxe darth vader cufflinks with onyx The company has repeatedly denied allegations that it facilitates Chinese espionage..
The arrest last week in Canada of its chief financial officer and founder’s daughter, Meng Wanzhou, on U.S. charges that she misled multinational banks about Iran-linked transactions has ramped up the pressure. Meng, who has been freed on bail, has said she is innocent and will contest the allegations in the United States if extradited. Huawei now increasingly needs to secure the approval of British authorities, who have so far resisted U.S. calls to act against the company and say they guard against security threats by having Huawei products reviewed at a special company laboratory.
But a British government report released in July found that technical and supply-chain “shortcomings” with Huawei equipment had exposed national telecom networks to new security risks, Sources told Reuters that NCSC luxe darth vader cufflinks with onyx officials had become frustrated by Huawei’s slow response to the report and its findings, which included issues raised in previous years about limitations on checking internal product code, The report’s critical language and NCSC Technical Director Ian Levy’s dramatic exit from the November meeting showed company officials in China they needed to take prompt and significant action, the sources said..