They are not to be a substitute for the shareholders

Proposed merger between GDF and Suez, managerial in EADS, Eurotunnel rescue: on most major industrial timing issues, parliamentarians are evidence of an unusual interventionism, with the exception of a few precedents such as the parliamentary inquiry in 2003, on the collapse of the airline AirLib. Is uncommon, the members have obtained Executive report, to the re-entry of the consideration of the Bill on the opening of the capital of SFM, subject on which, after a debate in plenary, on energy policy, the Committee on Economic Affairs comes to audition the Minister of economy and finance, Thierry Breton.

President of what was before the commission of the Production and trade, living previously in the shadow of the prestigious Board of finance, Patrick Ollier intends well to play a key role in the reconciliation of GDF and Suez, and has put its conditions to the Government: "at least three to four days of debate in the Committee, then three days to write the report". On the merits of the case, it has already developed a belief: "the fusion of these two companies is in the interest of gas of France, of his personal." It is also in the interest of consumers. "Because it validates an industrial strategy, this position exceeds the purpose of the text, which is simply to allow the State to descend below 50 in the capital of the French gas, to allow him to take part in concentrations at work in the energy sector.

A "strategist Parliament."

In another area, Noël Forgeard, ex-coprésident of EADS, had explained at length before commissions of Economic Affairs and finance, met in joint training, as it would have to its shareholders on delays in delivery of the Airbus A380 and A350. The CEO of Eurotunnel, Jacques Gounon, is, come to seek the support of the Group of ad hoc parliamentary work on its restructuring plan to exit Patrick Ollier found "credible".

This new ambition of parliamentarians to control or even to intervene on the strategy of industrial groups, be private capital raises many questions. Thursday, Thierry Breton has thus endeavoured circumscribe debate on SFM: "It is nothing more than to give this company to the capital flexibility." Members are not required to vote for or against the merger with Suez. They are not to be a substitute for the shareholders.

The desire to emerge a "Parliament strategist", on the ruins of the State strategist there is also some doubts in the majority. "We must ensure not to cross the white line that separates on one side, what is the control and, on the other, which would resemble a surety, or even to an interference in the group policy." "It is not our mission and we are not competent to do so," explains Hervé Mariton (UMP), MP for the Drôme.

"What is it shocking that there is a Parliament strategist", reacts Patrick Ollier. Aware of the sensitivity of the opinion on issues related to economic patriotism, business leaders are often the first to seek the surety of the Assembly.

"A request for opinion".

"Basically, we are responding to a question that was asked by Jean-François Cirelli CEO of SFM and Gérard Mestrallet CEO of Suez", is the Chairman of the Committee on Economic Affairs. "If we intervened on EADS, it is because there was a request for opinion", assured his counterpart of the finance commission, Pierre Méhaignerie, who the weakness of the Executive left the field open to legislative: "the absence of pedagogy during the crisis of the CPE, the sense of a machine running vacuum we led them to take things in hand." It is not sure, however, that the role of the Parliament so clarified.