Chapter 825 United Power Group

On October 20, 2011, the Libyan authorities occupied Sirte, the last stronghold of Gaddafi's remnants, and Gaddafi and his successor Mutassim were shot dead.

The armed forces of the authorities sent the bodies of the two to a meat cold storage in Misrata and exhibited them to the public for 4 days before secretly burying them.

At the same time, the political situation in Italy became more and more chaotic...

"As early as July last year, Berlusconi had a falling out with his important ally, Italian Speaker Fini, and Fini was expelled from the People's Party of Liberal Arts..."

Intelligence consultant Nigel Inkster told Barron:

"And Fini was originally one of the most important figures in the People's Party of Liberal Arts. After Berlusconi forcibly expelled him from the People's Party of Liberal Arts, Fini established the Italian Liberal and People's Party. In the current Italian government, many ministers have close relations with Fini, which puts Berlusconi in a very embarrassing position now."

The People's Party of Liberal Arts is the largest political party in Italy, and the current Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi is the leader of the People's Party of Liberal Arts.

For many years in Italian politics, Fini has been a strong supporter of Berlusconi, but later the two disagreed on issues such as combating illegal immigration and anti-corruption investigations, and the differences became increasingly greater.

On July 29 last year, the executive committee of the People's Liberal Party voted and unanimously agreed that Fini had a "bad attitude" and "opposed the government", formed a "party within a party", and his behavior was "completely inconsistent with the principles of the People's Liberal Party", so Fini was no longer recognized as a member of the party.

Berlusconi also asked Fini to resign as speaker of the House of Representatives, but was rejected.

Then at the end of last year, four Italian cabinet ministers resigned - these four ministers were all close to Fini, and were considered to be a turnaround after Fini fell out with Berlusconi.

However, until the second half of this year, Berlusconi claimed that the Italian government was still running smoothly and would not be greatly affected.

After acquiring 32% of Enel's shares, United Energy Group proposed to Italy to merge the electricity and gas businesses of United Energy Group with Enel. Prior to this, the two businesses of British Power Distribution and British Gas under United Energy Group had been integrated into British Power Group.

However, this proposal has never received a positive response from the other party.

But now, things have changed. Not long ago, affected by the sovereign debt crisis faced by Italy, Berlusconi's approval rating has dropped below 35%. It is said that he will probably not get enough votes in the upcoming parliamentary vote of confidence.

"Now, it is almost certain that Berlusconi's resignation is a foregone conclusion, so he needs to consider what to do after his resignation, after all, he still owns a large-scale business empire..."

Nigel's meaning is very clear, that is, after leaving Italian politics, Berlusconi needs to consider more for the family business, so no matter what, it is difficult to refuse the olive branch thrown to him by Barron.

All he needs to do is to give United Energy Group the go-ahead for the integration of Enel.

The government's shareholding in Enel is held by their Ministry of Finance, and Italy's finance minister is a close confidant of Berlusconi.

It is clear that after Berlusconi stepped down, many people had to start thinking about their future path.

In fact, Barron and Berlusconi had already had contact, but at that time Berlusconi still firmly grasped the power in Italy and was keen on his "parties"...

Sure enough, on November 5, after Barron had a friendly telephone conversation with Berlusconi privately, the Italian side passed the proposal of the United Energy Group.

Enel also announced the next day that they would merge with British Power Group to form the United Power Group.

This merger will be completed in about a month. The merged United Power Group will cover more than 10 countries in Europe, Australia and Southeast Asia, becoming the largest power group in Europe.

And through this merger, the United Energy Group will hold more than 55% of the shares of the United Power Group, thus becoming the controlling party of this power group.

The shares held by the Italian government will become 17.5%.

The board of directors of United Power Group appointed Gerry Larson, the former CEO of British Power Group, as its president.

As for the shares of United Power Group held by the Italian government... things have to be done step by step. After all, we have to wait until Berlusconi resigns before discussing this with his successor. I believe that when facing the country's debt crisis, the Italian government will be very willing to sell this asset - as long as United Energy Group can offer a good price.

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Many times, Barron can't help but feel that time is passing faster and faster.

Especially when he sees his children growing up - like his eldest son George Cavendish with Bonnie, who is now five and a half years old and will soon be of school age.

Although Barron just celebrated his 32nd birthday, if you add his age in his previous life, he is already in his forties...

It is no wonder that he feels this way, because people feel that time is passing faster and faster. When you are only ten years old, every year is only one tenth of your life experience. If you only have a solid memory after the age of three or four, then this year is even longer for children.

At Barron's current age, every year is only more than one fortieth of his life. It is normal to feel that time flies.

The reason why I suddenly have such an idea...

Because Bonnie is pregnant again, after having two sons, George and Richard, Bonnie hopes that this time it will be a girl...

But even if you do a color ultrasound, it will take some time to know the gender of the fetus...

At the same time, Bonnie's thoughts are also a bit complicated. After all, she has not been in office as the CEO of Summit Media for too long. If she needs to wait for the birth, then she will need to hand over most of the work to others for a while.

It's still early now, and these are things that need to be considered in a few months...

From Barron's point of view, of course it is more important to take good care of their children, but at the same time, he will respect the other party's ideas.

"I feel that if we have another one, three children will be enough..."

Hearing what Bonnie said, Barron shrugged:

"Things like this can't be planned, it's more of a matter of fate. I think the more children the better..."

"Haha, it's not like there won't be other people to give birth to for you."

She said that, and Barron touched his nose and just smiled.