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    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
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      France’s third-largest listed bank also outlines new growth targets

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      French insurer’s results exceed expectations elsewhere as it announces a further €1bn of share buybacks

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      French energy group EDF reports record loss

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
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      Company warns of €24bn hit to full-year core profits from output problems

    • Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
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    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
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      Reduction set to begin in September amid government pressure to help households handle cost of living crisis

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
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      Government to offer €12 per share to investors to take full control of power group

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      Franco-Italian carmaker pulls back after failing to take majority share in joint venture with GAC

    • Sunday, 17 July, 2022
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      EDF’s problems pile up as full nationalisation looms

      French supplier of nuclear energy is struggling with plant shutdowns, build problems and skills shortages

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
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      Tender offer emerges as preferred option as government seeks to take full ownership of power group

    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
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      Nuclear investments have saddled power company with debt

    • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
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      France repatriates children and mothers from Syrian camps

      Shift from case-by-case policy comes as campaigners step up calls for return of remaining minors to Europe

    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
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      Europe’s Spacs scramble for targets as market hit by hangover

      The region’s largest blank-cheque vehicle Pegasus Europe is among those seeking a company to merge with

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      French politics
      New crop of lawmakers vow to shake up France’s political order

      This year’s intake will change the National Assembly’s make-up and complicate life for Macron

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
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      French lender focuses on decarbonisation despite resurgence of fossil fuels in wake of Ukraine war

    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
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      Electoral breakthrough puts far-right leader Marine Le Pen ‘back in the game’

      With 89 seats Rassemblement National will be a parliamentary force on issues such as immigration and crime

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
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      Left-green alliance and resurgent far right will challenge president’s reform agenda

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      Deprived of his parliamentary majority, French president will have to seek compromises

    • Friday, 17 June, 2022
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      Deal would be first major move in long-expected wave of consolidation across Europe’s banking sector

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      Clément Beaune is one of a number of ministers under threat ahead of Sunday’s National Assembly vote

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      Suez lines up retaking old UK waste business after Veolia tussle

      French groups wait on British antitrust regulator’s judgment before settling fate of operation

    • Monday, 13 June, 2022
      French politics
      Leftwing alliance makes strong first-round showing in French election

      Macron’s MPs may fall short of majority in National Assembly after Mélenchon calls for ‘surge’ of voters in second round

    • Monday, 30 May, 2022
      Nuclear energy
      Power plant shutdowns hinder France’s ‘nuclear adventure’

      Corrosion in ageing reactors hits output just as president revives atomic energy programme

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