Finding a common slot for a cross-interview in their diaries of globe-trotting big bosses was a challenge, but the obstacle was overcome. Luca de Meo, the CEO of Renault, and Carlos Tavares, the general manager of Stellantis, wanted to meet and take part in the exercise. Their long tete-a-tete, at the initiative of Le Parisien-Today in France, is a first, as the opening of the Mondial de l’Automobile in Paris is looming in a fortnight. Then it was necessary to find the “host city” for this meeting at the summit. It could not be in Boulogne-Billancourt, at the headquarters of Renault, nor in Poissy, at the headquarters of Stellantis, while the headquarters of Le Parisien, in the 15th arrondissement of the capital, had been ruled out because of “the risk of traffic jams » in the fixed time slot.