The German number two in energy, E.ON, made an offer to the American group MIRANT for the sale of 49% it holds in the German electricity supplier BEWAG. For information, the European Commission had imposed the sale of BEWAG as a condition for the merger of VEBA and VIAG into an entity named E.ON. It wants to sell this stake to its fellow national HEW, but MIRANT, 26% shareholder in BEWAG, is blocking the operation in the courts, feeling that it has a right to pre-emption of the stakes held...