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Last week it emerged that BAE Systems, Europe’s biggest defence firm, and EADS, the owner of Airbus and a smaller defence busine
Last week it emerged that BAE Systems, Europe’s biggest defence firm, and EADS, the owner of Airbus and a smaller defence busine
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2017-04-07
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Last week it emerged that BAE Systems, Europe’s biggest defence firm, and EADS, the owner of Airbus and a smaller defence business, were mooting a £38 billion ($50 billion) merger. This week the buzz behind closed doors concerned a single question: will governments allow it?
The business case is straightforward. BAE is ailing. Despite successfully gambling on becoming a big gun in America nearly a decade ago, the slump in defence spending on both sides of the Atlantic had forced it to consider new options. Its tentative advances to Rolls-Royce were rebuffed.【C1】______
At any other time, the obstacles to a deal—differences over valuation, clashing personalities and the politicised shareholding structure of EADS—might still have seemed insurmountable. But valuation has become less of an issue. BAE’s price/earnings ratio fell by nearly a third in the 18 months before merger rumours began this summer. Pessimism about the firm’s prospects deepened, too.
Politics and personalities have grown easier. 【C2】______. He has also maintained close relationships at BAE, particularly with its boss, Ian King.
The defeat of France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, in May helped, too. Mr. Sarkozy was chummy with Serge Dassault, the owner of Dassault Aviation, a rival maker of jets. He would never have allowed a marriage that could hurt Dassault. 【C3】______.
Yet uniting the two firms will not be easy. The governments of at least four countries must agree: France, Germany, Britain and America. 【C4】______. A big defence firm like the merged BAE/EADS will have to assure its customers (governments) that vital intelligence is ring-fenced and cannot leak from one part of the business to another. Nor can it be acquired by an unsuitable buyer.
Satisfying these conditions will be so tricky that some analysts think the deal will founder.【C5】______
Rivals such as Boeing and Lockheed are sure to lobby against the merger, since it would create a competitor with bigger global sales than their own. However, the American government should welcome the emergence of a gigantic European contractor, says a defence executive. It could help Europe to do more for its own defence and spend its money more efficiently (i.e. , less nationalistically).
More detail about both the commercial logic of combining BAE and EADS and how the overlapping political circles are to be squared will emerge after October 10th. That is when the two firms are obliged, under Britain’s rules for mergers, to say whether or not they are going ahead. Both firms are determined to make it work, but it will be their governments that decide.
[A] BAE’s institutional shareholders will not back any proposal that leaves them with 40% of a company that does not have a normal governance structure.
[B] In May Tom Enders, a German who had run Airbus since 2007, became the chief executive of EADS. Mr. Enders has long wanted to turn EADS into a "normal" firm untainted by political influence.
[C] The new President, Frangois Hollande, has given Mr. Enders a green light to explore a deal.
[D] Both Lagardere and Daimler would welcome a chance to sell their stakes. The French government has indicated it might hang on to its shares, but accept being diluted to 9%.
[E] EADS, with orders for the civil jets made by Airbus booming and little overlap in its military business, looked alluring.
[F] For example, it will be tough to provide the security guarantees that American lawmakers will demand so long as the French and German governments retain influence over the combined entity.
[G] Both Mr. Enders and Dick Olver, BAE’s chairman, are confident that they will prevail. It is not clear what will happen to the French and German stakes in EADS.
【C1】
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答案
E
解析
文章首段开宗明义地提出欧洲两大集团(英航系统与欧航集团)商议并购事宜。第二段讲到英航眼下由于面临削减开支的压力而陷入困境,急于寻求合作伙伴以解囊中羞涩的燃眉之急,而与劳斯莱斯的合作却遭到拒绝。按照正常的逻辑推理,英航系统可能会再寻求其他伙伴洽谈合作事宜。所以文章此处可能描述英航与其他公司继续谈合并的事情,即:继续洽谈另一笔交易。在七个选项中,[E]中提到了一个词alluring,其含义是“具有诱惑的;吸引人的”,而此句的前半句是说EADS(即:欧航集团)旗下的空客集团与军用飞机项目几乎无重叠,由此推断[E]符合文意。
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