Pastor Hintze EADS Will Offer Paroli
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008Since the change of government is the post of aviation coordinator in Berlin vacant - an absurd, especially since the discussions on the Airbus-run rehabilitation. Meanwhile, Chancellor Merkel's candidate for the job chosen. It is an old friend from days of Helmut Kohl.
Berlin - The Economic State Secretary Peter Hintze, the Office as a government coordinator for the Aerospace. This should be the CDU politician still be ordered by the Cabinet, reports the news agency Reuters, referring to Berlin's government circles convene.
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Hintze: No profile in aviation - but good wires in European policy The Ministry of Economic Affairs Personnel wanted to officially neither confirm nor deny. The post has since the start of the grand coalition more than a year ago vacant.
Hintze would in the new office played an important role in the talks on the Airbus remediation responsible. The Airbus parent company EADS is planning a tough austerity program. German politicians are concerned, domestic locations could be compared to French disadvantage.
Hintze on Tuesday had already participated in the talks, the German Economics Minister Michael Glos (CSU) with the two Heads of EADS, Louis Gallois and Thomas Enders, had, reports the Financial Times Deutschland. Confidant of the Chancellor Hintze was at the time of the Kohl government CDU Secretary-General. In the air-and space policy, the politicians, the pastor by profession, has not excelled. However, the former CDU Secretary-General, as an intimate knowledge europapolitischer operations. When pan Airbus his contacts might be useful. The 56-year-old is also considered one of the confidants of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The post ofAerospace coordinator has been the change of government in autumn 2005 vacant. Economics Minister Michael Glos, after taking office his first Parliamentary State Secretary Dagmar Wöhrl entrust with the item. The advanced technology policy CSU politician, however, was not enforceable, since the wife of aviation and textile entrepreneur Hans Rudolf Wöhrl. Glos critics had accused her husband could Wöhrl Regierungsinsiderin as a competitive advantage. itz / dpa-AFX / Reuters