The former head of the French nuclear company Areva, Anne Lauvergeon, is to be chairman of the new board of European aerospace and defense company EADS. The People have the French president François Hollande already been agreed with the government in Berlin, reported the newspaper "Journal du Dimanche".
The Economy Ministry in Paris confirmed on Sunday evening, Lauvergeon was to move to the Board and represented together with the former head of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, the French state as a shareholder of EADS - subject to the approval of the shareholders' meeting in March. For incoming Presidency, the Ministry did not comment.
The new appointments to the EADS Board are necessary because of the reorganization of the shareholder. The French conglomerate Lagardère and the carmaker Daimler has reduced its shares, the German government increased its to twelve percent and is therefore the same as the French state. The election of the new board members will take place in March at a special meeting of shareholders.
Anne Lauvergeon, in France known as "Atomic Anne" had its post at the head of Areva evacuate a half years ago. The 51-year-old manager is close to the Socialists, recently she has been acting in the media as the new head of France Telecom.
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