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GM
Chief Executive Mary Barra visited Opel's headquarters in
Ruesselsheim near Frankfurt, while PSA said its CEO Carlos
Tavares planned to meet senior German officials, possibly
including Chancellor Angela Merkel, in the near future.
U.S. carmaker GM and France's PSA Group caused outrage in
Germany on Tuesday by confirming they were in talks that could
result in PSA buying GM's European operations without having
consulted Berlin or informed workers.
Opel employs the majority of its workers, about 28,000 people,
in Germany. It also has plants in Austria, Hungary, Poland,
Spain and Britain, where it uses the Vauxhall brand.
Germany's labor minister said on Wednesday there were talks "at
all levels" with Opel, GM and PSA to ensure that Opel's three
plants in Germany remained open in the event of a sale.
"The German government intensively discussed at a cabinet
meeting today the issue of Opel," Andrea Nahles said after the
cabinet meeting.
Separately, Britain's Department for Business said it was in
close contact with GM over the potential deal. GM's Vauxhall
plants employ 4,500 staff near Liverpool, northwest England, and
Luton, north of London.
(Reporting by Ilona Wissenbach, Edward Taylor, Laurence Frost
and Holger Hansen; Writing by Georgina Prodhan; Editing by Maria
Sheahan and Mark Potter)
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