Well, I spent the best part of two hours scouring the Internet for FACTS about this special statute and, do you know, I could not find any facts at all! Plenty of invective on all sides but precious little objective facts. You would have thought, with all the information now available on the Internet, not to mention the profusion of blogs, that you would be able to find out anything about anything. Not so!
When you get down to it, an awful lot of blogs are really rants. You may or may not agree with a particular rant but such blogs are not a very good port of call if you are looking for objective information.
Anyway, in the case of the SNCM we seem to be confronted with a particularly virulent outbreak of omerta!
How odd. I thought it had been privatized a few years back. Can private companies have "special status" of this type?
ReplyDeleteTry this link:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sncm.fr/editorial.php?Rub=110
There are in fact an awful lot of "special regimes" in France!
Greetings Barnaby
ReplyDeleteThe EU records are not usually easily accessible to the ordinary man or woman and its civil service seems to hinder the best efforts of Adobe or other search engines to make its workings more transparent. Nonetheless I have traced an arcane EU document called
"The First EU Railway Package" which says somewhere:
"However, if the recommendations made by the signing organisations are not taken into consideration and
national rail companies are not ready to “do their homework” and restructure themselves, rail freight faces
the risk of simply disappearing. The recent example of the French SNCM (Société Nationale Maritime
Corse-Méditerranée) in the maritime transport is an ominous development for the railways."
Over to you now Sherlock or is it Poirrot?