Once more, the parties of the big coalition (CDU and SPD) failed to agree, during an important meeting on October 26th in Berlin, on how to privatize Deutsche Bahn AG. The following day, Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee did not rule out a failure of the plan. Railway workers' trade unions Transnet and GBDA plead for « the maintenance of the group in the hands of the State ». Negotiations were postponed to November 8th. (Ref 061077)
A divided alliance. Initially, the federal government had to introduce a bill at the end of October. But the solutions defended by the negotiators do not seem very compatible (see article nº 06959). The stake of the conflict concerns the influence the State should keep on the railway network in case of privatization. Two camps are face to face. The first gathers the supporters of a total privatization of the firm, advocated by Deutsche Bahn and the trade union Transnet. The second (CDU) pleads
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