Discours stratégique s’il en est … ou quand la géopolitique rejoint la finance. S’exprimant lors d’une entretien accordée à la BBC suite au lancement du nouveau Qashqai, Carlos Ghosn s’est voulu direct en abordant l’impact que pourrait avoir sur Nissan une éventuelle sortie du Royaume-Uni de l’Union européenne.
Le PDG du constructeur automobile japonais a ainsi prévenu le Royaume-Uni que son groupe « reconsidérerait sa stratégie et ses investissements » dans le cas où Londres déciderait de sortir de l’UE. Scénario qu’il estime toutefois improbable.
Répondant à une question d’un journaliste, Carlos Ghosn a tenu à préciser que « si quelque chose changeait », le groupe devrait reconsidérer sa stratégie et ses investissements futurs. De nouvelles barrières commerciales pouvant en effet voir le jour le cas échéant, le principe de libre échange pouvant également être remis en cause.
Des propos qui raisonnent d’une façon toute particulière, le PDG de Nissan s’exprimant en effet en marge de la présentation à Londres du nouveau Qashqai. Lequel sera produit dans l’usine britannique de Sunderland où Nissan emploie 6.500 personnes. Son avenir est des plus prometteurs alors que le modèle actuel du Qashqai est quant à lui la voiture la plus vendue du groupe en 2012 en Europe avec plus de 240.000 ventes.
Près de trois décennies après le début de la production à Sunderland, l’usine demeure une implantation stratégique pour Nissan. Si le site a été construit pour servir le marché européen, Carlos Ghosn a tenu à souligner qu’il s’agissait d’une usine européenne, basée au Royaume-Uni. Mais si Londres décidait de sortir de l’UE, le site pourrait voir sa vocation initiale de centre d’opérations européennes être remise en cause, nouveaux modèles et investissements pouvant s’en éloigner.
Rappelons qu’en janvier dernier, le Premier ministre britannique, David Cameron s’est engagé à organiser à l’horizon 2015-2017 un référendum sur le maintien du Royaume-Uni dans l’Union européenne, en cas de victoire de son parti aux élections législatives de 2015.
A l’heure actuelle, Nissan – par la voix de Carlos Ghosn – semble être le plus important groupe industriel à avoir pesé les conséquences d’une sortie de l’UE du Royaume-Uni.
Sources : BBC, 20minutes
Elisabeth STUDER – www.leblogfinance.com – 11 novembre 2013
les réactions britanniques :
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/441912/Nissan-car-giant-boss-warns-company-might-quit-UK-if-Britain-were-to-leave-EU
His comments prompted a flurry of political reaction.
Fiona Hall, Liberal Democrat MEP for the North East, said: « This is a stark warning about the catastrophic damage the North East economy would suffer if we were to pull out, and it is one we cannot afford to ignore.
« Nissan is not just 6,000 jobs on Wearside, it is many thousands more across the region.
« Their importance to the North East can hardly be overstated.
« Workers and their families will rightly be asking why Ukip and the Conservatives are playing fast and loose with their jobs by talking up an exit instead of focusing on doing more to encourage the recovery.
« Fortunately I think Mr Ghosn is right when he says an exit is unlikely, because the business case for staying in is overwhelming.
« But the uncertainty that has been created by politicians putting their self-interest ahead of the region’s economic well-being is already jeopardising investment. »
Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said in a tweet: « The comments of Nissan’s CEO underline the absurdity of Tories promising more investment and exports while seeking to take us out of the EU. »
I am sure Nissan’s investment into the UK will continue when Britain leaves the EU
Ukip MEP Jonathan Arnott
But Ukip general secretary and European election candidate Jonathan Arnott said: « Mr Ghosn’s main comment is that if Britain left the EU, that would mean the situation would have changed. I quite agree. Britain would then be a more competitive market place as we could negotiate our own terms of international trade.
« The scaremongering that is once again going on is absurd. EU countries export 801,000 more cars to the UK than they import from us – we are a vitally important market place for them and that simply would not change.
« I am sure Nissan’s investment into the UK will continue when Britain leaves the EU. After all in 1999 some in Nissan warned that if Britain didn’t join the euro that could stifle investment. Instead they opened a new plant in Sunderland in 2012. »
Ma réaction: débarrassons nous de ces « mange merde » pour faire une vraie Europe, et faisons avec eux ce que la Chine fait avec « l’autre côté du détroit » colonisé par les USA.
La « Géopolitique » la vraie n’a rien avoir avec les pitreries de Monsieur Fabius.
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