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Soon, some voices gradually appeared in Europe, some voices were helping everyone to straighten out the Alstom incident, some voices were allowing ordinary people to figure things out.

At the beginning, someone explained why the French government was so resistant to Alstom being acquired by General Electric, which was not just a matter of face.

Moreover, because Alstom's energy business involves France's nuclear energy and other strategic facilities, if Alstom is acquired by General Electric, it means that France's nuclear power plants and even nuclear-powered aircraft carriers will fall under the control of General Electric in the future.

If one day GM stops Alstom Energy from supplying components to French nuclear facilities, the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle will become a pile of scrap iron.

Such a fact will naturally arouse greater resistance from the French.

This is going crazy!

At the same time, public opinion began to move out of France and toward the European Union. Another problem with GM's acquisition of Alstom was monopoly, which basically violated the EU's Anti-Monopoly Law.

However, the EU's reaction this time is very strange. On the surface, it is a serious protest, saying that it will stop this matter based on the "Anti-Monopoly Law".

But in fact, it didn’t make any substantive actions. Simply put, it was a mouthful. It was soon revealed that General Electric bought people’s hearts by distributing orders to EU countries and promising employment.

Once this matter is exposed, it is impossible for public opinion not to explode.

"Isn't the EU's existence to ensure the common interests of EU countries? When did it become the promotion of the interests of other EU countries by selling the interests of a certain country?"

"If the EU can turn a blind eye to monopoly cases such as General Electric's acquisition of Alstom, there is really no need for the EU to exist, and it should be disbanded."

"No wonder Britain wants to leave the European Union, and we, France, should hurry up to leave the European Union. What's the point of existence?"

"Take us with Germany and leave the EU quickly. The EU doesn't know what it's doing in the past few years."

"Gale Group's acquisition of Nokia, I hope the public will support it. You have been tossing around with the "Anti-Monopoly Law" for more than half a year. Now that France is so opposed, is this your attitude?"

Suddenly under the pressure of public opinion, the EU had no choice but to speak out, saying that it would stand on France's side to safeguard France's interests, and would keep investigating the monopoly issue at all times, and would never tolerate it.

At this time, whether the people believe in the EU is actually not important. The important thing is that things have become serious.

Things got bigger and bigger, and the Alstom incident also began to rise, and gradually became a matter of long-term concern throughout Europe, because it has a layer of symbols, it represents the dignity of the French, and it also represents the dignity of the Europeans.

The whole world knows that Europeans look down on Americans, but they have no choice but to be surpassed by the United States, and they have nothing to do, but old European companies like Alstom are like those Europeans with pure blood. Alstom was surpassed by General Electric Acquisition is a sting to their dignity.

But at this moment, some media wanted to rub salt in their wounds.

Is Alstom an Exception? "

A report from Germany completely hit the dignity of Europeans.

This report first clears up the doubts in the entire Alstom acquisition case, why five Alstom executives were arrested, and why Alstom suddenly faced a penalty of more than 700 million yuan.

All of this is because of the long-arm jurisdiction.

According to the laws of the United States, as long as any company in any country in the world signs a contract denominated in rice dollars, or sends, receives or even stores emails through a server located in the United States, the United States has the right to manage you.

In actual use, in fact, you only need to have a little relationship with the United States in your trade activities, then the United States can arrest you at will. At present, it is difficult for a multinational company to have nothing to do with the United States, because even if you If you don’t do business in the United States, you basically have to settle in rice dollars when you go to other countries to do business.

And according to the laws of the United States, as long as you think you have a problem, you can be arrested. Whether you really have a problem will be arrested.

After explaining the long-arm jurisdiction in detail, this article revealed another very critical issue.

Alstom is not the only company that has encountered long-arm jurisdiction.

Germany's Siemens, Daimler, Italy's Snam, Britain's Aerospace Systems, Switzerland's Panalpina, France's Total, Technip, Societe Generale.

A series of well-known lists appeared in the media, and the media then broke the news that these large companies are not bad because of their solid foundation, and many of them paid a large amount of fines and got rid of it temporarily.

However, many second- and third-tier companies have been forced to sell under long-arm jurisdiction, and the region where long-arm jurisdiction has been used most frequently in recent years is Europe.

At this time, some media soon broke out the history of General Electric's acquisitions in the past ten years. It can be said that the reason why General Electric has been able to stand still is because of its enduring acquisitions.

Which company in the industry does well will be acquired by GM in a short time.

In just ten years, four companies of Alstom's size were acquired by General Electric because of exactly the same situation. Alstom just happened to encounter an outbreak of public opinion this time, and it is indeed of great significance in France. That's what got the attention.

General Electric's materials have been picked up more and more cleanly. As of 2014, 15 prosecutors in the United States have retired into General Electric's pension.

When these facts were presented in front of the European people, the anger that originally belonged to the French people became the anger of the European people.

"What does General Electric think of our European company? We took it directly after we developed it?!"

"Don't you want to be so useless, being bullied like this and still being an ally every day, ally, what a fart!"

"The pride of Europe was lost by a bunch of cowards! Such humiliation happened on a large scale in Europe, I can't believe it!"

"I can't believe that a company dares to be so arrogant on our European soil. This was absolutely impossible in the past!"

"So this is Europe right now? Is it so defeated that you don't even have the ability to resist?

Where did the stuff in the bones of Europeans go? ! "

Alstom is a fuse that ignites the depression in the hearts of proud Europeans. They can't swallow this breath. Although they don't know what to do, they can at least be angry.

In mid-to-late June, Alstom was about to compromise under the huge impact, but now it dare not compromise.

Under the intensification of public opinion, history has really changed.

The pressure of public opinion made Alstom and some forces in France dare not make a blatant move at this time.

Moreover, there is no tendency for public opinion to calm down. More and more Europeans have raised a question.

What happened to #Europe? # On the hot search again and again.

"As the center of the world, why did Europe become what it is now?"

"All Asian countries have developed over the years, but we in Europe are regressing. Can anyone give me an explanation?"

"Could it be that we really can't do anything? Can we really only degenerate step by step?"

"We need an answer, whether it's our government or the EU, you need to give us an answer, what happened to Europe?

Where is our future, do we still have hope and opportunity, will we become the third world one day? "

"Do you know that Asians now say that we are the younger brothers of the United States, but we used to be the fathers of the United States!"

Anger, confusion, helplessness, Europeans have really experienced too much this year.

Meng Qian was sitting in the office holding his baby thermos, scrolling through the comments on the Internet, and he already had a bottom line in his heart, "As long as you want dignity, then things can be done."