No timetable for French energy group merger: minister
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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 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 President Jacques Chirac said even though he supports to seek a referendum on Turkey&#39;s European Union (EU) membership bid, such a referendum is impossible before the conclusion of negotiations, which are expected to take 10 to 15 years to complete.
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France said on Sunday that EU foreign   policy chief Javier Solana and Iran had weeks rather than   months to agree an agenda for talks about Tehran's nuclear   programme.
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Euronext's  $15 billion merger  plan with NYSE Group  has been "sensibly modified" but  discussions between the two exchanges must continue, French  Finance Minister Thierry Breton said on Monday.
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The proposed merger of French energy group Suez and state-owned Gaz de France (GDF) hit last-ditch problems amid shareholder wrangling and a court victory for trade unions which threatened to hold up the deal.
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The French and German leaders avoid setting a deadline for Turkey to comply with EU demands.
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European Union finance ministers failed early Thursday to agree on tax breaks to ease the impact of high oil prices despite sharp prodding from France and dire warnings that they are threatening economic growth.
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French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said on Monday that Societe Generale, hit by $7 billion in losses from rogue trades, was not under any pressure to merge with another bank.
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France said on Sunday that EU foreign   policy chief Javier Solana and Iran had weeks rather than   months to agree an agenda for talks on Tehran's nuclear program   before world powers unite against Iran.
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PARIS - France said on Sunday that EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iran had weeks rather than months to agree an agenda for talks about Tehran's nuclear programme.Asked by LCI television how much time ...Comment
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Turkey will not join the European Union for at least 15 years and could only do so once France had held a referendum on the issue, French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has said.
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French President Jacques Chirac said that a controversial government-backed merger of Gaz de France and French utility group Suez was needed to create a French champion in the gas sector.
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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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Negotiations on where to build the world&#39;s first nuclear fusion reactor ended without an agreement on either of the two sides under consideration in France and Japan, a Western diplomat said on Tuesday.
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The French government will not allow the crisis-hit bank Societe Generale to be the target of a "hostile" takeover bid, Prime Minister Francois Fillon warned on Tuesday.
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Neelie Kroes, the EU&#39;s controversial new competition commissioner, yesterday signalled to the French authorities that she would block any attempt to protect France&#39;s energy market by engineering a merger between its state-owned electricity and gas groups.