If it was the other way around people in France would cheer the goverment, they would go on the street to celebrate. The French goverment has a lot of power within the AFKL Group and in Holland KLM is too big to become Sabena 2. 300000 households are living from Schiphol and the Dutch goverment showed it's theeth. It's just protection of the Dutch market. The French have invented this. When everything is at ease again it's likely these shares will be sold again and hopefully the French gov will too.
KLM should never merged with AF anyway, this was waiting to happen. The biggest surprise is that a Canadian triggert this... He's the fool who gives pilots a 7% increase on their paycheck within no time while at KLM it was cut by Elbers and with more hours working for the Dutchies. This is no way to run a business profitable by Smith and try to steal departments from KLM. The best thing for KLM is to look for a different partner something they should have done long ago. Air France won't be Swissair 2 because the French goverment will put in money and don't care if that's allowed or not. That's the only way Air France will survive without KLM.