PARIS — General Electric (GE) said on Wednesday it planned to cut up to 6,500 jobs in Europe in the energy units it acquired from France’s Alstom last year."The restructuring plan will touch several European countries and impact potentially 6,500 jobs out of 35,000," a GE spokesman said, confirming in part a report in the L’Est Republican newspaper saying up to 10,000 jobs could go worldwide.In November, the US industrial giant completed its acquisition of the power and grid businesses of Alstom for €9.7bn, after making a number of pledges to win the support of the French government and fend off competition from rivals such as German company Siemens.One of those pledges was to create a net 1,000 high-skilled jobs in France, a promise that GE intends to honour, the spokesman said, despite 765 jobs due to go in France as part of this restructuring.French government spokesman Stephane Le Foll said it would monitor the company’s implementation of its commitments.In order to secure the d...
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