Part privatisation of French EDF being considered: prime minister
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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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Comment is free: Roy Hattersley: The prime minister has to decide on the limits of private enterprise within the public sector.
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French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has called for &quot;clarification&quot; of the role of the European Central Bank, amid fierce debate in France on the high level of the euro.
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In the latest case of French government intervention in the corporate arena, Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is to meet this week with the group that bottles Perrier mineral water, currently locked in a labor ...
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TRIPOLI, Nov 25  - French President Jacques Chirac said Thursday that oil-rich Libya may have ambitions to develop a nuclear energy programme but that it was not on the cards right now.
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French oil major Total  fears Venezuela's drive to take over complex heavy oil projects run by foreign oil companies in the Orinoco belt could lead to operational problems, chairman Thierry Desmarest said on Tuesday.
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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 will eliminate all energy waste by households and ban incandescent light bulbs and polluting cars, under proposals announced Thursday by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who also met with former Vice President Al Gore.
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The government, goaded by presidential candidates into responding to large job cuts at the airplane maker Airbus, said it was ready to pump cash into the company and shake up a Franco-German power-sharing pact. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin also called on the parent of Airbus, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, to abandon paying a dividend this year to its shareholders, which include the French government, after announcing plans to cut 10,000 jobs. Some 4,300 of those jobs are in France. Mr. Villepin, above, said the government stood ready to participate if the holding company decided to tap its shareholders for more cash through a capital increase to shore up a company badly hit by delays to the new Airbus A380 superjumbo airliner. âThe state will play its role,â he said. However, EADSâs biggest private shareholder, the German car company DaimlerChrysler, has battled for years to prevent what it regards as state meddling.
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Seeking to step out of President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s shadow, Prime Minister Francois Fillon on Tuesday promised to modernize France&#39;s institutions, in his first address to parliament.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, French finance minister, is expected to present the new commitment on Tuesday afternoon after meeting representatives from the insurance industry, the small business community, the private ...
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Creating a defence and aerospace "industrial champion" centered on France may be impossible for Nicolas Sarkozy to engineer during his last days as finance minister, as political considerations cloud the ...
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday called for a European energy policy and said France&#39;s eurozone partners should join it in a plan to pass on surplus tax receipts to consumers.
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The head of French bank Societe Generale  has hired investment banks to advise on the possibility of a merger with larger domestic rival BNP Paribas , Les Echos newspaper reported on Friday.
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French bank BNP Paribas is "thinking" about a possible takeover of its crisis-hit rival Societe Generale, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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France's prime minister defended thousands of job cuts at European planemaker Airbus on Thursday, but unions threatened to vent their anger during upcoming French elections while factory stoppages spread in ...Comment
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French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Thursday that it was not the shareholder structure that was fundamental to the success of European aerospace giant EADS, but the organisation and management of the company.