{"id":95006,"date":"2019-05-29T01:23:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T23:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/05\/29\/sensible-fiat-chrysler-renault-merger-could-be-undone-by-politics\/"},"modified":"2019-05-29T01:23:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T23:23:27","slug":"sensible-fiat-chrysler-renault-merger-could-be-undone-by-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=95006","title":{"rendered":"Sensible Fiat Chrysler-Renault merger could be undone by politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frosty relations between France\u2019s Macron and Italy\u2019s Salvini could scupper talks over \u00a329bn mergerThat there is an economic case for the proposed \u20ac32.6bn (\u00a329bn) merger between Fiat Chrysler and Renault goes without saying. A link between the two companies to form the world\u2019s third-biggest carmaker after Volkswagen and Toyota has always made a lot of sense. If the deal is scuppered, it won\u2019t be due to a lack of business logic; it will be because politics gets in the way.There are two big arguments in favour of the deal. The first is there is a global glut of automotive capacity that is already forcing companies to cut production, close plants and lay off workers. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/may\/28\/fiat-chrysler-renault-merger-talks-could-be-undone-politics\" target=\"_blank\">Sensible Fiat Chrysler-Renault merger could be undone by politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frosty relations between France\u2019s Macron and Italy\u2019s Salvini could scupper talks over \u00a329bn mergerThat there is an economic case for the proposed \u20ac32.6bn (\u00a329bn) merger between Fiat Chrysler and Renault goes without saying. A link between the two companies to form the world\u2019s third-biggest carmaker after Volkswagen and Toyota has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}