Less than a month after the ban was issued on the US side, the German side could no longer hold on.
They took the initiative to stand up and began lobbying the government to repeal the Volkswagen Protection Act.
At the same time, the German Federal Supreme Court intervened to mediate the conflict between the foreign investor and the Saxony state government.
The power of the U.S. market ban is unbearable for any company, and the public hopes to get a chance to re-establish itself in the U.S. market by relying on their own active performance.
As a result, in the face of the unanimous opposition of the United States and major Western European countries, the Volkswagen Company Protection Law, which has been promulgated for more than a decade, is finally about to be thrown into the dustbin of history.
The biggest obstacle standing in the way of investors has been cleared, and Karim and Tonya can finally join forces to do what they want to do.
Gorky's various financial teams began to encroach on Volkswagen's shares in the open market, and Blackstone, Bank of Colombia, and Mediterranean Shipping all bought Volkswagen Group's shares through their financial platforms, so some foreigners appeared on Volkswagen's board of directors one after another.
However, so far, the regulators of the Frankfurt market only know that there is an equity relationship between Blackstone and Bank of Colombia, and they are not clear about the relationship between MSC and them, and now within the board of directors, the Saxony government is still the largest shareholder with 30% of the shares, Karim and Columbia Bank have taken 27%, and MSC has 23% of the shares.
Although the controlling stake is just over half, Karim and Tonya have already taken the company's biggest say.
The battle for Volkswagen's equity is now over for the time being, and the Gorgi financial platform will take the opportunity to increase its holdings in the future, but this is no longer important when the overall situation has been decided.
Ever since Seryosha received a letter from Sir Dennis, he began to pay attention to the case of Matthias Ruster, which was transferred from the hands of the KGB and the Ministry of Defense to the judiciary under Seryosha's covert operation.
This meant that Matthias Ruster would not be prosecuted on charges of espionage or other serious crimes against the security of the Soviet Union.
Trials for these charges are generally closed to the public and are held in secret in military courts.
Seryosha, who studied law at Leningrad University, expects Moscow prosecutors to indict Mattyasrust on charges such as illegal border crossing, and given his status as a minor, the judge should not give him a heavy sentence.
In short, Seryosha could explain this matter to Denis, so Seryosha sent a reply letter to Denis through private channels after communicating with Yakovlev, in which Seryosha asked Sir Dennis to convey to the Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mr.
Kohl, that the Soviet Union wanted to negotiate with the other side on the debt issue.
When these two things are put together in a letter, the message is self-explanatory.
Now the reputation of the bear child in the world is too great, since someone from the Soviet Union threw an olive branch, then the German side naturally has to go on or provoke the Soviet Union and let them kill the bear child, then the Kohl cabinet must be ousted by the opposition.
So the Federal Republic of Germany readily agreed to the Soviet demands.
So Seryosha took the opportunity of the invitation from the German side, and also to avoid domestic political disputes, and left Moscow on the occasion of this debt negotiation and went to Bonn, the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany.
When the Soviet foreign trade and economic cooperation delegation led by Seryosha arrived in Bonn, Prime Minister Kohl personally went to the airport to welcome Seryosha's arrival.
After a brief exchange between the two men, the delegation boarded the bus and headed to the Bonn City Hall to attend the welcome event there.
Seryosha was setting foot on the soil of the Federal Republic of Germany for the first time, and he set two goals for his trip: the first was to convert the Soviet Union's foreign debt into energy contracts, which the Soviet Union could use its rich mineral resources to slowly repay, and the second was to negotiate a plan to cooperate in the construction of an automobile factory.
Now the Soviet Union has opened up some areas of the private economy and foreign investment, and until then, only red capitalists like Xiang Hammer could do business in the Soviet Union.
However, in Seryosha's view, these two goals are actually more important for car factories.
The debt negotiations were left to Gaidar, the chief economist and governor of VTB.
Therefore, according to Seryosha's request, the Federal Government of the Federal Republic of Germany arranged a series of inspection activities for him, the first of which was the most developed automobile industry in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Seryosha began his journey to the German automotive industry under the arrangement of the German side.
Seryosha visited Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and other high-end brand automobile manufacturing companies to understand the advanced experience of these enterprises in management and technology, and at the same time, he also inspected the developed car rental and auto finance lending institutions in Germany.
Seryosha intended to get VTB involved in the business of automobile and consumer loans in order to promote the domestic market for personal consumption in the Soviet Union.
During the visit to the Volkswagen factory, Volkswagen Vice President Piëch personally accompanied Seryosha on a tour of Audi's car production line.
The reason for visiting Audi is that this brand is very close to Gorky's AvtoVA brand cars in terms of market positioning, and both models are mainly aimed at the business market and are targeted at middle-income people.
At the end of the visit, Seryosha asked the Volkswagen entourage: "Would you like to cooperate with the Gorky plant to establish a joint venture to produce our AvtoVAZ and your Audi together?"
As soon as Seryosha said this, the Volkswagen executives present did not know how to answer this question.
For them, if they entered the Soviet market like China, Volkswagen would be happy to see it.
The Soviet Union not only had a vast territory and a large population, but also the purchasing power of the common people was generally higher than that of China today.
But this is a company on both sides of the Iron Curtain, is it really so easy to cooperate?
"Mr.
Minister, of course we are willing to cooperate with the returnees, but we do not know the situation in your country very well, and the time does not seem to be ripe, maybe we can wait a few years to discuss this issue."
Volkswagen executives politely declined.
"Is there any difficulty, our Secretary Gorbachev welcomes foreign companies to invest in the Soviet Union, if you really encounter any difficulties, you can come directly to me, I will help you solve it, I know, you still have to listen to the government in this matter, it doesn't matter, I will personally discuss this matter with Prime Minister Kohl" t1706231537: