French MPs wrestle with GDF privatization, affecting fate of Suez merger
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Suez chairman Gerard Mestrallet gives a press conference in Paris, August 2005. French parliamentarians are this week to begin debate on the privatisation of Gaz de France , which the government hopes will be ...
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The French state-owned company Gaz de France announced that it would merge with the utility Suez to create one of the worldâs largest energy groups.
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French energy group GDF disagrees with all of the complaints raised by the EU anti-trust regulator about its proposed merger with fellow French group Suez, GDF trade union representives told AFP.
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French lawmakers voted Tuesday to approve legislation to privatize Gaz de France, helping clear the way for the natural gas company's state-backed merger with Suez SA.
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France's top bank BNP Paribas is "thinking" about a possible takeover of its rival Societe Generale, rocked by multi-billion-euro rogue trade losses, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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A new round in a bitter fight over French energy privatisation has begun in parliament over a plan for Gaz de France to merge with Suez which also spotlights deep strains in European energy policy.
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The Argentine government is to decide the fate of Aguas Argentinas, the water company controlled by France's Suez, within  weeks.
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The merger between French utility firm Suez and state-run Gaz de France is postponed after a legal ruling.
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French energy group Suez and state-owned Gaz de France will announce Monday a decision on whether to merge into what would be one of Europe&#39;s biggest power companies, the French presidency said Saturday.
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French gas utility Gaz de France has been ordered by a Paris appeals court to hold a board meeting Friday on objections posed by the EU Commission to its proposed merger with Suez, after labor unions challenged the group's claim that a meeting was not immediately necessary.
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French energy group Suez and state-owned Gaz de France (GDF) are &quot;headed for an agreement&quot; on a merger to create a new European power giant after 18 months of delays, a source close to the negotiations said Sunday.
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BRITAIN will infuriate its partners this year as it fights to keep its rebate on the EU budget, but the biggest trouble may come from France.
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French transport commissioner Jacques Barrot is under pressure to explain to MEPs why he did not mention his involvement in a French political party funding scandal.
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French left-wing politicians vow to delay approval of a bill to privatise GDF, which would pave the way for a merger with fellow utility Suez.
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The French government is signalling that it has no intention of relaxing efforts to engineer a takeover of state-controlled Gaz de France by the energy and utilities group Suez, though a parliamentary debate was still two months away.
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Creating a defence and aerospace &quot;industrial champion&quot; centered on France may be impossible for Nicolas Sarkozy to engineer during his last days as finance minister, as political considerations cloud the prospects for a merger of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company and Thales, analysts said.
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The government came under pressure from lawmakers at the European Parliament on Tuesday to compensate policy-holders hit by heavy losses at insurer Equitable Life.