Meetings of the Munich financial press club are normally sleepy affairs, involving a handful of local journalists meeting local businessmen. But on April 11, this parochial forum has become an international media inquisition. Around 70 reporters and editors cram into a long, narrow room at Munich’s City Hilton hotel to grill one of the key protagonists in the abandoned Deutsche-Dresdner merger.
Paul Achleitner, the 43-year-old Austrian who became finance director of Allianz in January, sits on the end of a panel of Allianz representatives and tries to exude relaxed affability.
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