French parliament debates GDF privatization amid jobs row
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The French parliament has opened debate on a controversial bill allowing the privatization of gas utility GDF, ahead of a merger with energy group Suez and amid a row over whether the deal would create or cost jobs.
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French postal workers kicked off three days of strikes in the public sector Tuesday, as unions mount a challenge to the cautious liberalisation policies of President Jacques Chirac's centre-right government.
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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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Â· Special retirement terms for state workers targetedÂ· French president begins talks with unions today
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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 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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European leaders are concerned over job cuts German and French leaders are in talks to address how an overhaul of Airbus will affect their respective countries and try to resolve their differences.Comment
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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 Herve Gaymard started his new job confronted by three reports signalling a worrsiome weakness in the national economy.
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France&#39;s newspaper industry sank deeper into crisis this week after two of its top dailies stepped up rescue talks with investors, leaving observers skeptical about the likelihood of an imminent recovery.
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The French parliament started debating a  controversial bill on Tuesday that the government says will  prevent travel chaos during transport strikes, but that unions  warn will damage industrial relations.
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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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A plan to create a French Suez-GDF energy giant was in deep trouble and seemed likely to exacerbate factional strains within the government only months before a presidential election.
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European finance ministers clashed over Franco-German proposals to harmonise EU corporate taxes to prevent lower-cost member states grabbing too much of the investment pie.
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The French government could be about to unveil a mooted merger of state-owned Gaz de France and private utility group Suez, the newspaper Le Figaro said Wednesday in a report denied by the country&#39;s economy minister.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy meets with counterpart Wolfgang Clement in Berlin on Monday in an attempt to heal the recent rifts in Franco-German industrial relations with plans for a shipbuilding alliance.
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The debate on harmonizing capital-gain taxes in the European Union a ' roughly split between new and old members a ' took a turn for the worse when a French minister this week proposed to bar the distribution ...