Update 1: Sarkozy Partially Privatizes Areva
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Nicolas Sarkozy lifted the veil Wednesday on what is likely to be his last major sell-off as France&#39;s finance minister - the partial privatization of the state-owned nuclear group Areva SA.
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The Croatian Privatization Fund on behalf of the Government of Croatia has announced the sale of shares of Hoteli Zivogosce.
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France is brokering an 80 billion euro ($108 billion) merger of Gaz de France, the state-owned natural gas company, with the energy business of the private utility Suez.
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Herve Gaymard, farm minister and loyal backer of French President Jacques Chirac, takes over the finance ministry from Nicolas Sarkozy.
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PARIS The French government formally ceded control of France TÃ©lÃ©com on Wednesday as it began the sale of up to E5.8 billion of shares in the second-largest European phone company.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his  wife Cecilia are separating by mutual agreement, the  president's office said in a statement on Thursday.
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Financial service group Fortis has  moved to sell almost all of its remaining 36 percent stake in  Assurant, worth about $1.55 billion, after floating the U.S.  insurer nearly a year ago.
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French companies Areva, Total and Suez are involved in plans to build two third generation nuclear plants in the United Arab Emirates, Jazeera Television said on Sunday.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy's party won a clear parliamentary majority Sunday in elections seen as crucial to his vision for opening up France's economy, although the opposition thwarted a landslide victory by capitalizing on voter fears of giving Sarkozy too much power.
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French state-owned energy company Gaz de France is going to sign a contract Monday to take a controlling stake in Romanian gas supplier Distrigaz Sud for about 330 mln eur, company CEO Jean-Frangois Cirelli ...
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The French state-run company Areva has unexpectedly agreed to a $5 billion deal to build two nuclear power plants in China.
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A consignment of US weapons-grade plutonium began a north-south road journey across France to be turned into fuel to make electricity by Areva SA, the world&#39;s biggest maker of nuclear reactors, Greenpeace France said.
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PARIS : French oil group Total said it had signed an agreement to acquire a 25 percent stake plus one additional share in Russian natural gas producer Novatek, without disclosing the financial terms of the deal.
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The French government will sell a 9.6% stake in France TÃ©lÃ©com, taking its holding below 50%, announced the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry.
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PARIS - French airports are set to be opened to private investors after the government unveiled privatisation plans last week that stirred anger among trade unions and the opposition.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy resigned Monday in order to take over the leadership of the ruling center-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party, French TF1 television quoted government officials as saying.
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THE French government accelerated its privatization effort yesterday, saying that it would sell as much as 12.1 percent of France TÃ©lÃ©com, the former state monopoly, and take its stake