He also said Siemens will decide calmly whether to formulate a bid for Alstom or not, and denied personal difficulties between Alstom CEO Patrick Kron and himself.

“You can be sure that whatever we do, we give it a serious thought,” Kaeser said at a press conference in Berlin.

“We’re not giving control away; we want to be the ones to decide and not being pushed by someone else.”

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