PARIS — A year ago, then-Renault Chairman Carlos Ghosn stood before shareholders in Paris and pledged to buttress the automaker’s two-decade partnership with Nissan. He praised the strength, solidity and pragmatic nature of their relationship and vowed to eliminate all “reasonable doubt” about the durability of the alliance.
On Wednesday, Renault shareholders will gather in the same cavernous hall in the French capital and again consider the company’s relationship with Nissan. But the circumstances have changed radically. Ghosn is gone, arrested in Tokyo and charged with financial crimes, and the alliance he nurtured is under unprecedented strain.
