Thread: Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it happen here...??
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Old January 2nd 12, 09:50 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.europe
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Default Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it happen here...??
"Lüko Willms" wrote in message

Am 02.01.2012 18:37, schrieb :
France's SNCF is state-owned, though I heard an official once say
that they have not received any since the early 1980s. Of course, I
have no way of knowing if that is true or not.

SNCF proudly announced that they pay 223 million Euros (or so)
dividents to their shareholder.

The German federal government decided that they want a 500 million
Euro dividend from the shares they hold of Deutsche Bahn AG.

If it was a real commercial company, the shareholders wouldn't get to
choose the dividend level. Only when the government level of
shareholding falls below 30% can it be regarded as anything other than a
nationalised company.


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