Mistral aircraft carriers finally sold to Egypt.

L’Egypte a acheté les deux navires Mistral français

par Rédaction de France Info samedi 10 octobre 2015 15:29
Les deux Mistral sont désormais vendus à l’Egypte © MaxPPP

Leur vente avait été annulée avec la Russie, à cause du conflit en Ukraine. Les deux navires porte-hélicoptères Mistral sont désormais égyptiens : le contrat de vente a été signé ce samedi au Caire, en présence de Manuel Valls.

L’accord avait été trouvé le mois dernier ; le contrat de vente a été signé ce samedi, au Caire. Les deux porte-hélicoptères Mistral, que la Direction des constructions navales services avait construit à l’origine pour la Russie – mais dont la vente a été annulée en représailles au conflit en Ukraine – sont désormais égyptiens.

La vente a été officialisée ce samedi au Caire, en présence de Manuel Valls. La visite du Premier ministre français vise à conforter les liens avec l’Egypte, qui vient également d’acheter 24 avons de chasse Rafale – une commande notamment financée par les pays du Golfe, l’Arabie saoudite en tête. Elle s’inscrit dans le cadre d’un contrat franco-égyptien plus large, de 5,2 mililards d’euros, qui comprend aussi des missiles et une frégate.

Le budget 2016 sauvé par l’Egypte.

The French budget rescued by Egypt.

par Anne-Laure Dagnet jeudi 24 septembre 2015 09:28

La vente des deux Mistral à l’Égypte va rapporter 950 millions d’euros © REUTERS / Stéphane Mahe (€950M is the reported sale price to Egypt)

Le gouvernement va pouvoir boucler son budget grâce à la vente des Mistral.

The government is going to lock in it’s budget thanks to the sale of the Mistral carriers.

A une semaine de la présentation du projet de budget Bercy pousse un grand ouf de soulagement. La vente des deux Mistral à l’Égypte va rapporter 950 millions d’euros. Ça tombe très bien car il fallait justement trouver 600 millions à 1 milliard d’euros pour boucler le projet de loi de Finances pour l’an prochain. “Trouver des crédits ailleurs pendant la discussion budgétaire, C’est ce qu’on fait tous les ans”, minimise Bercy, qui se réjouit néanmoins de la “bonne nouvelle” de la vente. La question maintenant c’est quand aura-t-elle lieu ? 2015 ? 2016 ? Si c’est l’an prochain, ça sera trop tard pour ce projet de budget et ça serait dommage à quelques mois des régionales…

The government (Bercy – Dept of Finance) let out a big sigh of relief with just a week to go to the presentation of the budget. They are going to report the sale of the two Mistral aircraft carriers to Egypt for €950M. It came at a good time as it was necessary to find between 600 and 1bN Euros to tie in the legally the Financial projects for next year.”Every year we need to find economies during the budget discussions”, Bercy played down, who rejoiced none the less the “good news” of the Mistral sale. The question  now is when will it take place? 2015 or 2016? If it is next year, it will be too late for the budget implementation and that will be hard luck on the regions for some months to come….

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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