The first, Mr Sarkozy's favourite, is to force Areva, a profitable firm, to take over Alstom.
Besides, on May 4th Mr Sarkozy said that he does not want to dismantle Alstom.
At the other Alstom, a French concern, has 18 months to test the ammonium-carbonate process.
Clearly, the more money Alstom receives in advance, the less working capital it requires.
Alstom, a French firm, has almost finished building one in Wisconsin that uses ammonia.
Ken Livingstone, the mayor, blamed Alstom, an engineering firm with a private-finance contract to maintain the trains.
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He worked at Alstom's rail division and then ran it for several years in the late 1990s.
Contracts with a host of foreign vendors such as Bombardier, Alstom, Thales , Mitsubishi and Parson Brinkerhoff must be managed.
Even without Mr Monti's green light, Mr Sarkozy will doubtless continue to find ways to keep Alstom alive.
Three from France are Pechiney (25, PY, www.pechiney.com), Alstom (23, ALS, www.alstom.com) and Groupe Danone (35, DA, www.danonegroup.com).
The government's initial efforts to help Alstom involved just such a method, but the deal was resisted in Brussels.
But Rolls-Royce is withdrawing from tidal power generation, following the sale of its business to Alstom in January 2013.
Last year, the commission was soft in its treatment of Alstom, a huge French engineering group, following French government pressure.
Mr Monti has also limited the state's role, so that Alstom's managers have a chance to restructure free from political interference.
Multinational corporations like Lockheed Martin and Alstom, the French energy giant, have struck partnerships with startups to commercialize their technology.
As finance minister in 2004 he fought off European Commission disapproval to use state money to rescue Alstom, an engineering firm.
This is where Alstom might alter the fate of all European businesses.
Mr Sarkozy's second plan is for Areva to take on Alstom's trains and trams as well as its transmission and distribution assets.
All the same, Alstom is taking steps to improve its cash management.
If they fail, Alstom's bruised shares are sure to take another beating.
Alstom currently has euro6.27 billion of net prepayments on its balance sheet.
Mr Sarkozy went to Brussels this week with three plans to save Alstom, each of which would bring its own set of problems.
He and his colleagues face a difficult few months during which they must persuade the stockmarket that Alstom is a stable, profitable company.
The uncomfortable implication is that Alstom's performance in previous years has been flattered by such prepayments and that the price today is a liquidity crunch.
Competitors such as Siemens have snapped up some of Alstom's assets.
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Alstom faces two other nasty financial issues: debt and customer prepayments.
Nigel Hart of hedge fund Reach Capital Management bought shares of French power utility Alstom following its announcement that it would acquire Spanish wind company Ecotecnia.
The commission threatened, for instance, to block the government's recent bail-out of Alstom, an engineering group, approving a rescue plan only after France agreed to last-minute changes.
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