Luc Rémont defends his evaluation on the head of EDF … and settles some accounts with the State which ousted it | EUROtoday

Luc Rémont needs to defend his evaluation as president and chief govt officer of Electricité de France (EDF) … and to settle some accounts with the shareholder state, which has simply pushed him in the direction of the exit. “My mission is over, but even if it only lasted twenty-eight months, it remains for me the mission of a life”declares the CEO ousted from the nationwide electrician, throughout an extended interview put on-line by Le Figaro Sunday, March 23. In a lapidary press launch, Friday March 21 afternoon, and not using a phrase for Mr. Rémont, the Presidency of the Republic introduced that he needed to interchange him by Bernard Fontana, Director General of Framatome, provider in gear of the nuclear and subsidiary of EDF.

At 55, after studying that he is not going to be renewed at 1 / 4 of the time period of his first mandate, Luc Rémont believes to have a imaginative and prescient “Basically” totally different from that of the Elysée on this nameless firm with 100 % public capital. “” The EDF firm, to be as much as its missions of common curiosity, should, for my part, first be environment friendly, aggressive, and directed as such “he defends. However, according to this former Schneider Electric and the investment bank Merrill Lynch, “An vital a part of the State considers that the corporate should expertise its mission by performing its selections in a approach that brings it nearer to a administration, which it’s not legally”.

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