Suez-GDF merger decision on Monday: French presidency
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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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Paris says it is confident the controversial Suez-Gaz de France merger will go ahead as the EU investigates it.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday he wants to use his country's upcoming presidency of the European Union to thrash out an agreement on changing the fishing quotas system.
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France's Constitutional Council, which rules on the legality of government legislation, said it had validated a law allowing the privatisation of state-controlled Gaz de France, paving the way for its planned merger with the Suez energy group.
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French President Jacques Chirac today meets Chancellor Angela Merkel for talks expected to centre on Franco-German tension over a major restructuring plan for European aircraft manufacturer Airbus.Comment
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French President Jacques Chirac (C), flanked by General Secretary of the Francophone association (OIF) Abdou Diouf (L) and Burkina Faso&#039s President Blaise Compaore give a press conference at the end of the ...
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ROME, Oct 29  - French President Jacques Chirac urged the head of the incoming European Commission Friday to take &quot;the appropriate decisions&quot; to resolve a row over his EU executive team which has left the EU in limbo.
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PARIS, Oct 27  - French President Jacques Chirac said Wednesday that Turkey&#39;s EU membership bid was &quot;not a done deal,&quot; although he believed it was in Europe&#39;s best interests, a government spokesman reported after a cabinet meeting.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday he and British Prime Minister Tony Blair had struck a deal on reforming the EU's institutions while Germany reported progress towards a treaty.
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STRASBOURG, France - President Jacques Chirac said Friday that France will decide in a referendum whether it wants Turkey to join the European Union - a potential blow to the Muslim-majority country&#39;s bid.
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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 President Nicolas Sarkozy meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday to try to agree on who will run the troubled European aerospace group EADS, which manufactures Airbus.
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France's president is heading for a showdown with European finance ministers over the French economy.
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The new head of the state French electricity utility EDF is considering a part flotation before the end of 2005, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said in a newspaper interview on Thursday.
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French unions won a legal bid to postpone  a crucial board meeting of Gaz de France  on its  planned 80 billion euro ($102.5 billion) merger with utility  Suez , dealing a blow to the government-backed deal.
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Automotive parts and tire maker   Continental AG CONG.DE believes the impact of the possible   merger between car firms General Motors GM.N, Renault   RENA.PA and Nissan 7201.T would be mixed, a board member   told newspaper Euro am Sonntag.
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The head of private French energy group Suez has written to President Nicolas Sarkozy in an attempt to unblock its stalled merger with state-controlled Gaz de France, the Financial Times reported Tuesday.