{"id":192717,"date":"2009-03-02T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/02\/europeans-want-50-stake-in-opel-for-gm-aid\/"},"modified":"2009-03-02T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T11:01:00","slug":"europeans-want-50-stake-in-opel-for-gm-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/02\/europeans-want-50-stake-in-opel-for-gm-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Europeans Want 50% Stake in Opel for GM Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=alezjx0QcRW0\">GM May divest itself of something around 50% of Opel in exchange for &euro;3 billion in aid<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Note that this is a <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">loans and loan guarantees<\/span> primarily from from German federal and state governments, not a sale, but these nations are demanding that GM give up a significant proportion of its ownership shares.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this comes down to the European governments believing that GM would otherwise use Opel as a unwilling organ donor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like GM May divest itself of something around 50% of Opel in exchange for &euro;3 billion in aid. Note that this is a loans and loan guarantees primarily from from German federal and state governments, not a sale, but these nations are demanding that GM give up a significant proportion of its ownership &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,984],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}