French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said the Iranian threats were not helpful: "I do not think that Europe will get drawn into this idea of an ultimatum," Le Maire told reporters.
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PLEA TO LE MAIRE Orange's CFE-CGC union called on Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire in a statement on Sunday not to take any rushed decision on Richard after Tuesday's French court verdict.
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"Fundamentally, I believe in this project," Le Maire told CNews.
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Then again, Le Maire may be playing a longer game.
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"This is of strategic importance for Europe," Le Maire said.
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LG: I'm very excited to be speaking with Maire Walsh.
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"That status quo is not an option," Le Maire said.
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M. Girard était alors maire du 4e arrondissement de Paris.
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"We have no information," Mr. Le Maire told BFM television.
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"The status quo is not an option," Le Maire added.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire considered the slowdown temporary.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire in September had described Punch Powerglide as a "credible, solid buyer," and Le Maire reacted angrily to Ford's decision, and called on the U.S. company to change its mind.
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"I will be very simple and very clear," Le Maire said.
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Mr Le Maire may have a long wait ahead of him.
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Le Maire said the DGCCRF was forced to issue a Dec.
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"The Champs Elysees are standing up again," said Bruno Le Maire.
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"There will be a new leader after Brexit," Le Maire said.
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FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS FACEBOOK'S LIBRA RAISES SYSTEMIC RISKS
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin "locked horns" with his French counterpart, Bruno Le Maire, at the meeting, according to the FT. • "I am ready to wait, but not to wait for eternity," Mr. Le Maire said.
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Eventually, Le Maire hopes that other European countries will change their attitudes.
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Le Maire said both Peugeot and rival Renault had lost vehicle orders.
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Le Maire isn't the only European official concerned about the trade tensions.
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"The current EU rules are obsolete," Le Maire told France 2 television.
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Other possible countermeasures will be decided in coming weeks, Le Maire said.
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Le Maire said that Renault has also launched an internal financial audit.
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"What a waste," said Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire earlier on Thursday.
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"But French people are skeptical," Mr. Le Maire told reporters last week.
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"It's a catastrophe for business," Bruno Le Maire, the finance minister, said.
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Le Maire will meet with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin next week.
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Talks are to continue today, said France's finance minister, Bruno Le Maire.
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"We want France to be as attractive as possible," Le Maire said.
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M. Ollivier, le maire de Joinville, n'entend cependant pas se laisser mouvoir.
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FRENCH MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS IT IS TIME TO SETTLE EU-U.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire described the U.S. proposals as "unacceptable".
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After GE Chief Executive John Flannery informed Le Maire the target was now "out of reach", Le Maire asked him to ensure that "GE take all necessary measures to comply to the best of its abilities" with its commitments.
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Furthermore, says Bruno Le Maire, France's finance minister, tax is a "sovereign matter".
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"The first lever for the resilience of Paris is its inhabitants," Maire said.
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Le Maire also stressed the importance of European companies protecting their industrial data.
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Another, Bruno Le Maire, tried to look hip by not wearing a tie.
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"Today the priority is to turn around Air France," Le Maire told franceinfo.
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FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE: STATE WILL NEVER BUCKLE TO PRESSURE ON RENAULT
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Mr Le Maire will tell anybody willing to listen that "France is back".
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"The main thrust of this presidency is not changing," says Mr Le Maire.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called for more regulation of tech companies.
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Macron stayed home this year, but his finance minister, Bruno Le Maire came.
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Le Maire was speaking to reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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Given that heritage, Le Maire arguably played to type during Wednesday's board meeting.
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Le Maire has acknowledged that the state was struggling to offload the holding.
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Le Maire said Europe needed to react quickly and protect its economic sovereignty.
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"Europe needs to stop being scared of its own shadow," Le Maire said.
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Le Maire on Thursday said threats for the US were not the answer.
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He'll meet with French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire at 11:30 a.m.
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Originally, Le Maire wanted to convince other European countries to get on board.
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FRANCE'S FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS BANKS SHOULD REDUCE COSTS OF INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS
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Mr. Le Maire is the economy minister in France, not the prime minister.
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Le Maire had earlier discussed the matter with Japanese industry minister Hiroshige Seko.
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It also welcomes around 2.7 million Chinese tourists each year, Le Maire said.
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FRENCH ECONOMY MINISTER LE MAIRE REITERATES THAT FRENCH DIGITAL TAX IS NOT DISCRIMINATORY
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FRENCH ECONOMY MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS HE HOPES TO REACH A DEAL COMPANIES
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Le Maire said Italy's euro zone peers would be gradually applying pressure on Rome.
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"That would be a breakdown of trust between France and Germany," Le Maire added.
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In frustration Bruno Le Maire, France's finance minister, has applied a digital tax unilaterally.
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Le Maire said on Wednesday that the government wants to consolidate the Nissan alliance.
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Bruno Le Maire (BLM): I'm deeply convinced that Emmanuel Macron will overcome those difficulties.
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Le Maire was referring to a France-Italian summit in Lyon later on Wednesday.
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"It's in our interest to have a fair digital tax," Le Maire told reporters.
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Le Maire is due to meet his new German counterpart Olaf Scholz in Paris.
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In the EU, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire had choice words for Libra.
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"Stephane Richard has done a good job," Bruno Le Maire said on Radio Classique.
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At the same time, Le Maire is right to want a level playing field.
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FRANCE'S FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS ENVIRONMENTAL COST OF AVIATION SECTOR SHOULD BE ADDRESSED
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FRANCE'S FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS COMMON EU FRAMEWORK ON DIGITAL CURRENCIES IS NEEDED
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"We now must move to a new phase," Mr. Le Maire said last week.
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" Mr. Le Maire said Europe would not negotiate "with a gun to the head.
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Bruno Le Maire, alors ministre de l'agriculture, l'avait élevée au rang de cause nationale.
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FRENCH ECONOMY MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS FRANCE HAS SUPPORT OF EU REGARDING DIGITAL TAX
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Equally, Macron and Le Maire have made political hay out of hammering Big Tech.
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Le Maire said he had spoken to the Japanese about the proposed tie up.
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Altmaier and Le Maire are expected to hold a news conference after the talks.
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"We need to make sure that there's no risk for the user," Le Maire said.
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"There is no greater threat to world growth," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.
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Le Maire said he had spoken to the Japanese personally about the proposed tie-up.
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Le Maire said he had spoken to the Japanese personally about the proposed tie up.
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"That's a wise decision," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told CNBC Thursday in Brussels.
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In November Bruno Le Maire, the French finance minister, attacked it as "dangerous for Europe".
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"We won't impose anything on anybody," insists Mr Le Maire, mindful of smaller countries' reticence.
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Le Maire also came in for criticism from Renault staff representatives concerned for the alliance.
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Until then, the only prize Le Maire deserves is the de Gaulle award for dirigisme.
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Expect the EU to retaliate, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said earlier this month.
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Maire Walsh: I am passionate about it because, you know, it makes me more informed.
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"We cannot accept private companies issuing their own currencies without democratic control," Le Maire said.
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PARIS - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire opens a conference in Paris on competition policy.
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Bruno Le Maire, France's finance minister, fears Germany's export rules could render such plans "useless".
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"These pressures are unacceptable, we'll let Amazon know," Le Maire told France Inter radio station.
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"These pressures are unacceptable, we'll let Amazon know," Le Maire told France Inter radio station.
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DAVOS-FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS U.S. IS READY TO SUSPEND ITS TARIFF THREAT
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During this period, France should not be subject to tariffs, Le Maire also said Tuesday.
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Any tax framework developed by the O.E.C.D. must meet certain standards, Mr. Le Maire said.
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"It's time that European countries opened their eyes," Le Maire said on Europe 1 radio.
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"He wasn't respectful of the rule of law," said the economy minister, Bruno Le Maire.
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Le Maire is in Tokyo after a weekend meeting of G20 finance officials in Fukuoka.
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Likewise in France, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called for new guidelines on cryptocurrency trading.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told RTL radio he had been made aware that Apple Inc.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has renewed his confidence in Renault chairman Jean-Dominique Senard.
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Le Maire said a total of 5-6 billion euros ($5.6-$6.7 billion) would be invested.
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But Le Maire couldn't get a unanimous vote and created a tax for France in particular.
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This month, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the operation could "save" the French nuclear industry.
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"We shall see on Thursday," Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told the broadcaster's evening news bulletin.
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Le Maire said the tax cut would benefit 15 million households, the vast majority of taxpayers.
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FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS DIGITAL TAX TARGETED BY U.S. PROBE RE-ESTABLISHES FISCAL JUSTICE
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If these two deals materialise, Le Maire would have earned the banker of the year award.
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"We are close to having a deal in our hands," Le Maire told France Inter radio.
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Le Maire also said a contract for a reprocessing plant would "save" the French nuclear industry.
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"Taxing digital giants is a matter of fiscal justice," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire tweeted.
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Le Maire wants to target big tech companies in particular — think Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon.
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"Today, Mr. Ghosn clearly cannot lead the company," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Tuesday.
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"That is not one of the options on the table today," Le Maire told franceinfo radio.
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Le Maire said on Friday that Germany's failure to back the proposed tax at a Dec.
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Le Maire, 48, is regarded as sharp, ambitious and more than capable of leading the group.
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Le Maire said he had discussed the issue with his U.S. counterpart, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
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Le Maire will ask a court to look at it and fine tech giants if necessary.
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Speaking on RTL radio, Le Maire said on Wednesday he had become aware that Alphabet Inc.
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Tria was due to meet French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire in Paris later on Wednesday.
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"There will be no new taxes during the mandate," Le Maire told BFM news television channel.
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"I would not say 'no' to a Chinese investment," Le Maire told French TV station BFM.
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Rome, Cabinet meeting Economy Minister Giovanni Tria meets French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire in Rome.
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Some worker representatives hit back at Le Maire on Sunday, after he called their demands unjustified.
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FRANCE'S FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS EUROPE SHOULD CONSIDER THE CREATION OF A PUBLIC DIGITAL CURRENCY
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France's finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, has been maneuvering to patch up the relationship with Nissan.
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And earlier Wednesday, Mr. Le Maire said there was no need to rush the merger talks.
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Bruno Le Maire, the finance minister, has declared the riots "a catastrophe" for the French economy.
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"It is really now time to decide, and have more investment, more growth," Le Maire said.
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Le Maire said that he and Mnuchin would meet again on Thursday to discuss the issue.
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FRANCE'S LE MAIRE SAYS CEOS OF GERMAN COMPANIES ARE WAITING FOR MORE INVESTMENT FROM GERMAN GOVERNMENT
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PARIS (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday he expected carmaker Renault (RENA.
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"The productive pact has a clear objective: full employment in 2025," Le Maire told business leaders.
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File photo of French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on May 22, 2017 in Berlin, Germany.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Thursday said the sale of state assets would start in September.
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"We are determined to reach a decision together," Le Maire told BFM TV, in reference to Germany.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has said Renault should now set up an interim management structure.
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It shows the "multi-benefits approach of resilience, adaptation to climate change and social cohesion", said Maire.
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Le Maire added that the deal would allow Europe to remain competitive against the U.S and China.
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No formal resignation has yet been received, however, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said late on Tuesday.
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"There is no greater threat to world growth," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday.
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U.K. Trade Secretary Liam Fox, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra.
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Bruno Le Maire, a former Europe minister, says that he could back a majority under Mr Macron.
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The startup is backed by 3 million euro in seed funding from Atlantic Labs (Christophe Maire), Think.
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Neither Lombard nor Le Maire said what would happen to CNP Assurances's minority shareholders following the operation.
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Mr Le Maire says he is undeterred by what to many observers looks like a damaging rebuff.
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For his part, Le Maire said that governments should not be mixing trade and non-trade issues.
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France's finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, tried to sway the European competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, this week.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney have also questioned Libra.
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Le Maire argues the measure is necessary to make internet giants pay their fair share of taxes.
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Le Maire has said the tax would raise up to 500 million euros ($565 million) per year.
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Le Maire reportedly called for G7 banking officials to issue a report on Facebook's plan next month.
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Hodgson worked with computer scientist Frederic Maire, of the Queensland University of Technology, to automate the process.
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On Wednesday, Italian Finance Minister Giovanni Tria canceled a planned meeting with his counterpart, Bruno Le Maire.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday that an agreement was close to being struck.
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"It's in our interest to have a fair digital tax," Le Maire told reporters, speaking in English.
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"We have major European infrastructure projects that are complicated to finance," Le Maire told Europe 1 radio.
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Whatever the eventual deal, Le Maire is not alone in repeatedly stressing the urgency of these conversations.
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Bruno Le Maire, the finance minister, talks of the state stepping back slowly from holding corporate assets.
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The country's economy minister, Bruno Le Maire, said that strengthening the alliance was the "most important" thing.
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"We want a meeting of the Renault executive board in the next few days," Le Maire said.
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M. Girard est inscrit sur la liste Paris en Commun d'Anne Hidalgo, la maire sortante de Paris.
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FRANCE'S FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS LACK OF GROWTH IN EURO ZONE IS CRUCIAL ISSUE TO TACKLE
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Italy's economy minister, Giovanni Tria, canceled a meeting with his French counterpart, Bruno Le Maire, in Paris.
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" Le Maire added that a new CEO for Renault should be in place "in a few days.
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Le Maire said decisions by Lebanon's government were urgently needed to improve the situation on the ground.
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He is due to meet French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire regarding the taxation of digital firms.
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Europe needs new "financial instruments allowing it to be independent from the United States", Le Maire said.
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Separately, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the government could reduce its 15% holding in Renault.
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After all, Le Maire effectively sank talks with Fiat because he was concerned about Nissan's frosty reaction.
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As of late Tuesday, however, no formal resignation had been received, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.
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" Subdirect Digital Strategy Director Maire P. Walsh (r): "I thought the ESPN guy… he was so evasive.
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The French Finance Minister's office referred CNN Business to a press conference that French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria held on Thursday, during which Le Maire said France and the US would take lead roles in talks around the OECD tax plan.
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The solid but discreet Mr Philippe remains in his job, as does Bruno Le Maire, the finance minister.
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FRANCE READY TO CUT RENAULT STAKE TO SHORE UP NISSAN PARTNERSHIP SAYS FINANCE MINISTER BRUNO LE MAIRE - AFP
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Italy's Maire Tecnimont is already working on the Port Harcourt plant, and Italian refiner ENI is an adviser.
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Le Maire added that the French government had already investigated Ghosn's tax affairs but had found nothing wrong.
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"It's good for growth," Le Maire told France 2 television on Wednesday, without giving any more specific details.
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Shortly after the bill was passed, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire responded to the threat of retaliation.
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"Carlos Ghosn is no longer in a position capable of leading Renault," Le Maire told France Info radio.
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If Mr Le Maire cannot find the savings, the new concessions could push it as high as 3.4%.
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The tie-up will also help La Poste diversify from dwindling revenues from postal services, Le Maire said.
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France's finance minister Bruno Le Maire last week spoke of the risks that Atos' offer posed to jobs.
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"I am ready to wait, but I am not ready to wait for eternity," Le Maire told CNBC.
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"If a large shark is identified, it could send an SMS or an image to lifeguards," Maire explained.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the United States should not consider itself the world's "economic policeman".
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire warned after Janaillac quit that he would not soak up the airline's losses.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, for example, urged EU states to consider suspending funding for tax havens.
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Maire Walsh: But I will also listen to it when I'm making dinner at the weekend for friends.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called on Scholz and other European counterparts to make a decision soon.
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Le Maire said Paris would keep its levy in place until the new, internationally agreed tax replaced it.
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France reacted angrily to what Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire described as an "incomprehensible" intervention by the Netherlands.
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FINCANTIERI (*) French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Saturday he would meet his Italian counterpart on Sept.
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French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said the government had stepped in to protect the country's strategic interests.
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Le Maire thinks it's better to start taxing tech companies in France now and find European support later.
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Its finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, said three-quarters of the summit participants were in favor of action.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire urged EU states to find a common candidate as soon as possible.
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Speaking to reporters after meeting with Lindner, Le Maire said he believed that the differences could be overcome.
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His wife wore a veil on a trip to Iran a few years before, Mr. Le Maire noted.
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If Le Maire were to get the job, it could have repercussions for other top euro zone jobs.
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"Alstom and Siemens have just made fresh concessions to the European Commission," Le Maire told France Inter radio.
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"We will take decisions based on technological interest and the strategic security of our networks," said Le Maire.
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To achieve that, public spending will likely have to fall since Le Maire is promising no tax increases.
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Other participants in the round include existing investors Union Square Ventures, Mosaic Ventures, Brigitte Mohn and Christophe Maire.
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Le Maire said the French state, Renault's biggest shareholder, had engaged constructively with all partners in the negotiation.
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France's finance minister Bruno Le Maire said Italy had only days to make concessions and avoid such action.
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"We are waiting for the United States to show some good will towards Europe," Mr. Le Maire said.
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Renault's chairman, Jean-Dominique Senard, called his Fiat counterpart, John Elkann, with the news from Mr. Le Maire.
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Mr. Le Maire was scheduled to fly to Tokyo on Thursday ahead of diplomatic meetings over the weekend.
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Le Maire added that oil companies should pass on the price cut "immediately to consumers at the pump".
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"We should not be satisfied with the level of growth in the euro zone," Le Maire told reporters.
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A decree regulating the price would be published during the day, Le Maire told French BFM Business radio.
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In an interview, Mr. Le Maire said that he hoped that a compromise could be reached this year.
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While Mr. Le Maire had hoped for something more extensive, he said he believed that progress was made.
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DAVOS-FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS DIGITAL TAX BASED ON AN OPTIONAL BASIS WOULD NOT BE CREDIBLE
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DAVOS-FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS FRANCE WILL NOT SCRAP ITS DIGITAL TAX WITHOUT AN INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT
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DAVOS-FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS AGREED WITH MNUCHIN ON A COMMON FRAMEWORK TO ADDRESS DIGITAL TAX
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Le Maire also said he could not accept that France's nuclear industry is a "state within the state".
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FRANCE'S LE MAIRE SAYS HE HAD MNUCHIN AGREED ON TRYING TO FIND NEW POSSIBLE COMPROMISE IN FIFTEEN DAYS
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Italy's euro zone peers would be gradually applying pressure on Rome.
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"There are possibilities other than a nationalisation in order to support Air France KLM," Le Maire told reporters.
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"It is not in our interest at all to weaken this alliance," Le Maire told Europe 1 radio.
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Le Maire reiterated France and Japan were keen to pursue the strengthening of the alliance between the two carmakers.
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"Our hope is that we will come to an agreement with Germany in this crucial point," Le Maire said.
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French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire also said the government would be "very vigilant" on the staff cut plans.
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On Monday, Le Maire tweeted that the current protests would cost France 0.1 percentage point of quarterly economic growth.
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"There are no rungs anymore on France's social ladder," Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, a conservative, said on Monday.
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Le Maire himself warned Air France staff in May that the government would not come to the airline's rescue.
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FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS FRENCH STATE WILL LODGE LEGAL COMPLAINT OVER LATEST CLAIM ABOUT GHOSN'S SUSPECT EXPENSES
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Maire Tecnimont said it had won orders worth about $2300 million for licensing, engineering services, EP and EPC activities.
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"Europe must provide itself with the tools it needs to defend itself against extra-territorial sanctions," Le Maire added.
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But Le Maire says that France will look at advertising revenue, marketplace revenue and revenue based on personal data.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire had favoured the tie-up, but wanted guarantees over jobs, future headquarters and governance.
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Meghan Maire Dubyak and Timothy Marshall Belknap were married June 11 at St. Dominic Church in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
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Le Maire will discuss the issue with German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier when he visits Germany on Feb. 19.
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Gemalto also jointly asked to meet Le Maire and Atos's Thierry Breton, who became chief executive nine years ago.
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Le Maire also said that France and Germany would renew work on converging their rules for calculating corporate taxes.
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Le Maire rejected the idea that asking U.S. firms to pay the right amount of taxes is financial protectionism.
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Earlier on Tuesday, French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said he wanted to be on "equal footing" with Fincantieri.
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Guadeloupe prefect Eric Maire said up to 400 millimeters of rain were forecast in some parts of the island.
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Le Maire said Paris would seek to strengthen Europe's ability to block sanctions and provide investment finance to companies.
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MILAN (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Saturday he would meet his Italian counterpart on Sept.
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" Bruno Le Maire, the French economy minister, said Wednesday that blocking the merger was "a bad choice for Europe.
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FRANCE'S FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS ECB'S MONETARY POLICY SHOULD BE COMPLEMENTED WITH FISCAL MEASURES, INVESTMENTS TO REVIVE GROWTH
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Friday urged the EU to define clearly what qualifies as green investment.
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In the past week, Bruno Le Maire, the French finance minister, sought reassurances as he met with company executives.
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But Mr. Le Maire later played down the idea, saying it was a long-term plan, according to Bloomberg.
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Mr. Le Maire said the authorities in France had found nothing suspicious in Mr. Ghosn's activities in that country.
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A spokeswoman for Mr. Le Maire said he was likely to seek information about Nissan's allegations against Mr. Ghosn.
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The talks are scheduled for 1100 GMT, according to the published agenda of French finance chief Bruno Le Maire.
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"All of the instruments available to the European Central Bank should be used quickly and massively," Le Maire added.
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"All of the instruments available to the European Central Bank should be used quickly and massively," Le Maire said.
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FRENCH MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS THERE IS NO RISK OF FUEL SHORTAGE AT PRESENT IN FRANCE FROM STRIKE SITUATION
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Le Maire also rejected suggestions in the British press that France was taking a hard line in Brexit negotiations.
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Le Maire is set to meet US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in Davos at the end of their deadline.
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Le Maire also said in a statement that the planned deal will be submitted to antitrust regulators for approval.
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Le Maire also said in a statement that the planned deal will be submitted to antitrust regulators for approval.
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"I do not think that Europe will get drawn into this idea of an ultimatum," Le Maire told reporters.
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Le Maire added that the government aimed to cut public spending by 16 billion euros ($19.2 billion) in 2018.
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Le Maire has championed an overhaul of French corporate law encouraging long-term investment and employee profit-sharing schemes.
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"I think we can reach a new deal and a common European position at the OECD," Le Maire said.
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"The conditions have not been met for me to go to Riyadh," Le Maire told France's television Public Senat.
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However, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and a host of French executives are all still due to attend.
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French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday that Renault's chief executive must also chair the Renault-Nissan alliance.
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"We should take our time to make sure that things are done well," Le Maire told BFM TV on Wednesday.
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"I see that decision as giving us an opportunity to better explain the project to the French," said Le Maire.
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"There are other ways between allies to solve our differences, there is no need for threats," Le Maire told reporters.
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On Sunday, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire seemed to suggest the delays were still the subject of discussions in government.
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But Le Maire repeated the government position that bosses of state-controlled companies should quit if convicted of a crime.
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Le Maire is also studying selling the state's stake in lottery operator FDJ (Francaise des Jeux) and energy group Engie.
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"I want this deal to take place within the framework of the alliance between Renault and Nissan," said Le Maire.
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Bruno Le Maire [economy minister] speaks perfect German, practically with no accent, as does Sylvie Goulard, the new defence minister.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire sought to ease the tensions, saying stability remained critical for both France and Japan.
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France's Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire first lobbied other European countries to create that new tax at the European level.
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The French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, said Thursday that he "favorably welcomed" the deal between Fiat Chrysler and PSA.
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French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire told journalists he and Air France-KLM's board of directors had not been informed.
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"It's the first time that France and Germany have put forward proposals to transform EU competition rules," Le Maire said.
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Le Maire said that any possible changes to the shareholding structure between Renault and Nissan were "not on the table".
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FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS WE SHOULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF TAXING DIGITAL GIANTS THROUGH ACCORDS RATHER THAN THREATS
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"There is also a concern about money laundering, there's a concern about the funding of terrorism," Le Maire also said.
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"The euro gives us stability, it protects our economy and protects us in our struggle against inflation," added Le Maire.
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Speaking after the meeting, Le Maire said the EU was poised to take counter-measures against the new U.S. tariffs.
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Le Maire said he asked central bank heads in G7 countries to write a report on Libra by mid-July.
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FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS HE HOPES THAT RENAULT WILL BE ABLE TO VOTE POSITIVELY ON POSSIBLE NISSAN REFORMS
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French economy minister Bruno le Maire instead said finance companies may have to rely on what it known as equivalence.
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Le Maire said the tax would target platform companies that earn a commission on putting companies in touch with customers.
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A French source said that Le Maire did not have a preferred candidate and would play the coordination role impartially.
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"I hope we can reach a deal before end-October," Le Maire said after meeting with staff representatives in Bordeaux.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in a statement the sale was worth about 1.2 billion euros ($1.40 billion).
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Macron and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire had issued calls for Nissan to share findings from its months-long investigation.
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Speaking with Reuters over dinner at an upmarket restaurant in the Romanian capital, Le Maire declined comment on specific deals.
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"This is not about managing CDC, it's about reinventing CDC's role," Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told reporters last month.
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Maire Tecnimont said on Wednesday it had won new orders worth about $2225 million in Europe and north/western Africa.
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Hours after the company announced its crypto ambitions, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire poured cold water on the project.
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"It's in our interest to have a fair digital tax," Le Maire said at a press conference, according to Reuters.
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A further complication for Le Maire is France's poor record of meeting its own deficit targets over the past decade.
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The agreement was signed in the presence of French finance minister Bruno Le Maire and Chinese trade minister Zhong Shan.
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"We are gradually going to improve French workers' purchasing power," Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told LCI television on Monday.
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"I will therefore be taking Google and Apple to the Paris commercial court for abusive trade practices," Le Maire said.
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Last month, Richard got the backing of French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who said Richard's contract should be renewed.
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"Time is running out, and the ongoing uncertainty is no good for anyone, in particular for business," Le Maire said.
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Le Maire said a previous deal did not give sufficient guarantees with regards to employment levels and use of technologies.
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"No one would understand if the severance pay of Carlos Ghosn were exorbitant," Bruno Le Maire told France Inter radio.
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FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS WE CANNOT ALLOW FACEBOOK'S LIBRA PROJECT TO GO AHEAD UNDER CURRENT CONDITIONS IN EUROPE
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire was scheduled to fly to Tokyo to address the Japanese carmaker's qualms about the deal.
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France is sticking to a 1.7 percent economic growth forecast for 2019, the French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, said.
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A decree regulating the price would be published during the day, Le Maire told French BFM Business radio, Reuters reported.
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"Nobody with a job will lose a cent," the country's finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, said on BFM television Friday.
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Meanwhile, the French economic minister Bruno Le Maire urged the public on Tuesday to avoid "precautionary shopping" in grocery stores.
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Le Maire listed pharmaceuticals and aerospace as a further two sectors where France's reliance on Chinese imports was too great.
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"Clearly, there is a need to avoid any kind of optional solution," said Bruno Le Maire, the French finance minister.
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France's Le Maire explained that the proposed EU tax would target European firms as well, not just US corporate entities.
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Le Maire listed pharmaceuticals and aerospace as a further two sectors where France's reliance on Chinese imports was too great.
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"This is a key political question for the 21st century," said Bruno Le Maire, France's minister of economy and finance.
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Mr. Le Maire said France wanted the minimum tax rate and digital taxation issues to be handled as a package.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire reiterated Philippe's claims on Sunday, though he did not give a definitive time-frame.
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Le Maire said the dispute had already been raised with EU partners and that France could "count on European solidarity".
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France&aposs finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, on Tuesday called the proposed tariffs "unacceptable" and "not worthy of an ally."
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"We have to work among ourselves in Europe to defend our European economic sovereignty," Le Maire told Europe 1 Radio.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko and visiting French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire will meet at 6 p.m.
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"It's not every day that I agree with Salvini," said Le Maire, whose government appears to hold the trump cards.
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Le Maire will visit Tokyo on Monday to meet with business leaders and government officials including Finance Minister Taro Aso.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Ousted Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, who was re-arrested in Japan on Thursday, is getting French consular protection, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire told BFM TV. Le Maire also told BFM TV that the French government's main priority was to ensure the performance of Renault, in which France has a stake.
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Carlos Ghosn isn't currently fit to lead Renault following his arrest in Japan, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has said.
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"Carlos Ghosn is no longer in a position capable of leading Renault," Mr Le Maire told France Info radio on Tuesday.
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Le Maire told France's lower house of parliament that he will look to guarantee the industrial future of the Belfort site.
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Le Maire, sensitive to German concerns about France's fiscal largesse, said Paris would meet European commitments to reduce its public debt.
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Last month, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said FDJ would be privatized by the end of the year, market conditions permitting.
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"At this stage, we do not have any evidence to support the accusations against Mr Carlos Ghosn," Le Maire told reporters.
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" And French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told Europe 1 radio that Libra can't be allowed to "become a sovereign currency.
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LESS than two years ago, Bruno Le Maire was an outsider in the race for France's centre-right Republican presidential nomination.
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A graduate, like Mr Macron, of the elite civil-service training college, the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, Mr Le Maire is unapologetic.
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Le Maire added that Renault's partnership with Nissan was in the interests of both France and Japan and of both companies.
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Bruno Le Maire said "all states have to do their best to stick to commitments" when asked about Italy's fiscal plans.
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"Let it be known that if we are attacked we will react collectively and we will react firmly," Le Maire said.
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Le Maire said that he would press Mnuchin for sanction exemptions for specific French companies so they could operate in Iran.
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Facebook's Libra project cannot be accepted without a strong set of rules, France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told CNBC Wednesday.
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Le Maire said he had asked central bank heads from G7 countries to write a report on it by mid-July.
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French firms including Renault, Alstom, and Sanofi were expected to sign deals in Algeria in the near future, Le Maire said.
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"I think it was a mistake from the EU commission to refuse that merger between Alstom and Siemens," Le Maire added.
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France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire had said he was aiming for a decision on a European candidate by end-July.
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Board meetings on H240 results: ENI (press release on July 26), MAIRE TECNIMONT, AUTOSTRADE MERIDIONALI , BASIC NET, COIMA RES, NOVA RE .
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Le Maire made the comment in Tokyo, where he is visiting after a weekend meeting of G20 finance officials in Fukuoka.
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"Unless we are able to reinvent Bretton Woods, The New Silk Roads might become the new world order," Le Maire said.
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Le Maire asked Mnuchin, "How can you get the Chinese to respect international law if you don't?" one meeting participant said.
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And NHK quoted French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire as saying that an integration proposal was "not on the table now".
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Le Maire told the JDD that they should expect to be taxed between 2 percent and 6 percent of their revenue.
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NHK quoted French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire as telling journalists that an integration proposal was "not on the table now".
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Given investment cuts by oil majors, Maire Tecnimont is looking to enter the renewable energy sector, Affari&Finanza said on Monday.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and German counterpart Peter Altmaier told journalists the European response would be united and firm.
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"This promises to create a network of confidence without intermediaries, offers increased traceability and will boost economic efficiency," Le Maire wrote.
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"It is out of [the] question'' that Libra "become a sovereign currency,'' Le Maire said in a radio interview, Bloomberg reported.
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Le Maire said a regulation from 1996 could permit the EU to take care of the financial penalty of the sanctions.
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The French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told CNBC Thursday that the Eurogroup will do its best to reach an agreement.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire warned Sunday that Rome needs to respect European spending rules, according to the Financial Times.
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Le Maire will meet with his German counterpart Olaf Scholz in Paris on Saturday in an attempt to narrow the differences.
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France's Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire criticized Apple and Google for the way they run the App Store and Play Store.
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"France is a sovereign country, its decisions on tax matters are sovereign and will continue to be sovereign," Le Maire said.
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Le Maire said he was seeking concrete exemptions for countries already present in Iran, including Renault, Total, Sanofi, Danone and Peugeot.
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Le Maire had said last year that France would block any moves by a foreign power to gain control of ADP.
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Milan, Maire Tecnimont holds event on "Beyond digital" with Chairman Fabrizio Di amato; CEO Pierroberto Folgiero delivers closing address(0830 GMT).
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Le Maire also said the coronavirus could cut French economic growth below 1% in 2020 from a previous estimate of 1.3%.
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Getting Tokyo's approval required time, and France's finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, had planned to fly out for talks this week.
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The French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, wants the government to have a seat on the board of any new company.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told a conference in Paris that the two sides needed to reach a friendly agreement.
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The state then reimburses the firm the minimum-wage equivalent, but Le Maire said that amount would be increased on Monday.
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The state then reimburses the firm the minimum-wage equivalent, but Le Maire said that amount would be increased on Monday.
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Annual general meetings: CNH Industrial (0700 GMT), FCA (1000 GMT), Ferrari (1300 GMT), Banca Mediolanum (09003 GMT), Maire Tecnimont (0830 GMT).
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Annual general meetings: CNH Industrial (0700 GMT), FCA (1000 GMT), Ferrari (13 GMT), Banca Mediolanum (0800 GMT), Maire Tecnimont (0830 GMT).
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Annual general meetings: CNH Industrial (0700 GMT), FCA (1000 GMT), Ferrari (1300 GMT), Banca Mediolanum (0800 GMT), Maire Tecnimont (0830 GMT).
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French economy minister Le Maire on Tuesday, asked companies, especially the largest, to show the "moderation" in their dividend payment policy.
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The sender said two of the bullets were meant for Le Maire and the third for his budget minister, Gerald Darmanin.
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Le Maire repeated that the EU would take "all necessary measures" to respond if the United States decided to impose tariffs.
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"I had the impression that we are not the ones who attacked the United States," Le Maire told CNBC's Steve Sedgwick.
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MORE CLARITY NEEDED French Finance Minster Bruno Le Maire told reporters it remained unclear exactly what the U.S. proposal would entail.
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FRENCH ECONOMY MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS SAYS PHASE 1 DEAL DOES NOT OFFER A GLOBAL FRAMEWORK FOR RESTRUCTURING GLOBAL TRADE RULES
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FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS IF U.S. IMPOSES SANCTIONS AFTER WTO RULING IT WILL BE AN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL MISTAKE
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"Europe stands united vis-à-vis the U.S." on the preference for a broadly agreed tax framework, Mr. Le Maire said.
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Mr. Le Maire said that if the United States imposed tariffs during the negotiating period it would effectively end the talks.
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French finance minister Bruno Le Maire told reporters in Brussels prior to the meeting the digital tax remains a "difficult negotiation."
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A second source confirmed French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire had asked Tria details of the budgetary plans during the meeting.
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Milan, Maire Tecnimont holds event on "Beyond digital" with Chairman Fabrizio Di amato; CEO Pierroberto Folgiero delivers closing address(0830 GMT).
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Le Maire added that France's economic contraction would be much worse than the -1% that had been expected earlier this month.
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"We refuse to negotiate with a gun to our head," Le Maire told reporters on the sidelines of the G20 meeting.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the government, Renault's top shareholder, would safeguard the long-term viability of the carmaker.
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PARIS, April 4 (Reuters) - Ousted Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, who was re-arrested in Japan on Thursday, is getting French consular protection, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire told BFM TV. Le Maire also told BFM TV that the French government's main priority was to ensure the performance of Renault, in which France has a stake.
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"If you want to be competitive and efficient, we need to be able to export to countries outside Europe," Le Maire said.
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"We want currency levels to reflect economic fundamentals," Le Maire told reporters at a briefing at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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Le Maire confirmed that if the deal went ahead, France's stake in Renault would go down to 7.5% from 15% at present.
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Echoing his French counterpart Bruno Le Maire after a meeting in Rome, Padoan said the two countries had given themselves until Sept.
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Le Maire sought to play down the setback, saying he saw the referendum as an "opportunity" to explain better the privatisation plan.
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Le Maire sought to play down the setback, saying he saw the referendum as an "opportunity" to explain better the privatization plan.
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France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told a news conference on Friday that a total of nine countries "formally joined the initiative".
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In an interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Le Maire urged Germany to support France's efforts to introduce a Europe-wide digital tax.
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"We can and must make progress on the banking union," Le Maire said, adding that "partial results" could be achieved by June.
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France will discuss the possible sale of more Rafale aircrafts with Sisi, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said earlier on Tuesday.
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" Maire Ni Eineachain, 27, a factory worker at a medical device company in Galway "I am Catholic and I am pro-choice.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has said the tax is necessary to make internet giants pay their fair share of taxes.
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In fact, Le Maire said the tariffs battle, which kicked off last year, has already reached beyond the world's two largest economies.
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"Our guiding principle is to create an environment in which companies can succeed," says Mr Le Maire, his centre-right finance minister.
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Le Maire also said French banks with branches in Italy had issued corporate and household loans totaling 280 billion euros ($319 billion).
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Le Maire told CNBC that Paris could not wait for long for a consensus to emerge at the European and international levels.
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For Maire, the detection software could potentially be applied to something like a drone-led monitoring system for sharks off a beach.
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Seko denied any such agreement through a rare official letter of protest sent to Le Maire, Japanese daily newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported.
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The French government is also preparing for the worst and a possible "no-deal", Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday Paris had been given assurances that a contract would be signed this spring.
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France's Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire recorded a video message for the press conference, saying that he supports October and today's campaign.
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Le Maire denied the French government had caused the collapse of merger negotiations between the Italian and French automobile giants last month.
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"A taxation system for the 21st century has to built on what has value today, and that is data," Le Maire said.
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Punch Powerglide was a "credible, solid buyer" but had yet to detail its plans and production forecasts for Blanquefort, Le Maire said.
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Moreover, the choice of Le Maire is also probably aimed at sending a strong signal to Germany about Macron's commitment to reform.
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"We have just received Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's response: it's negative," Le Maire told Le Figaro in an interview published on Friday.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has also forecast that the protests would trim 0.1 percent of a point off national output.
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Le Maire said that blockchain will offer unprecedented opportunities for French startups to raise funds by issuing tokens in Initial Coin Offerings.
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That's according to the Financial Times, which cited a letter from Le Maire and Banque de France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau.
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"We refuse to negotiate with a gun to our head," Le Maire told reporters on the sidelines of the meeting on Saturday.
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This was after comments from Bruno Le Maire, the finance minister of France, stating that the government would not bailout the airline.
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"I'm going to take legal action against Google and Apple with the Paris Commercial Court for abusive business practices," Le Maire said.
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On the euro zone budget, Le Maire said the idea had been seen as impossible to achieve only a few months ago.
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French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire told French news channel LCI on Wednesday that it was time for new leadership at Renault.
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Trump "gives us a reason to unite and a historic chance to become stronger," Le Maire said in an interview published Tuesday.
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Le Maire said he would meet French supermarket operators later on Thursday and meet Lactalis management on Friday to discuss the matter.
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FRANCE'S FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS WE NEED TO AGREE ON EU'S TAXONOMY TO DEFINE WHAT ARE GREEN INVESTMENTS, SPUR GREEN ECONOMY
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France's finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday Ghosn should not remain in charge of Renault after his arrest in Japan.
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"It's a catastrophe for business," Bruno Le Maire, the finance minister, said Sunday as he toured Paris businesses smashed up by rioters.
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The finance and economy minister, Bruno Le Maire, said France had no evidence of the accusations that Mr. Ghosn faces in Japan.
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"Khashoggi disait que c'était le rêve de sa vie de créer quelque chose comme ça", se rappelle Mme Merlino, l'ancienne maire adjointe.
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Le maire de Québec, Régis Labeaume, a qualifié l'attitude du gérant de " scandaleuse ", tandis que d'autres ont menacé de boycotter le magasin.
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FRANCE'S LE MAIRE SAYS HE AND MNUCHIN AGREED TO STEP UP EFFORTS IN ORDER TO FIND A COMPROMISE OVER DIGITAL TAX ISSUE
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FRANCE'S FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS IF THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT IN TRADE WAR WITH UNITED STATES, EUROPE WILL NEED TO RETALIATE
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"It's because the ECB's monetary policy is accommodative that we must without delay launch the transformation of our economy," Le Maire said.
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"I still maintain that this assets sale is essential for our country," French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said after the vote.
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"The French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said, "the monetary sovereignty of countries is at stake from a possible privatisation of money . . .
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In separate comments, Le Maire also praised proposals unveiled earlier on Wednesday by the OECD for a global overhaul of digital taxation .
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FRENCH ECONOMY MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS PHASE 1 TRADE DEAL BETWEEN U.S. AND CHINA IS FRAGILE AND DOES NOT SOLVE UNDERLYING PROBLEMS
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Le Maire added it was essential to resolve a dispute between the European Union and the United States over Airbus and Boeing.
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PARIS, May 21 (Reuters) - Europe will not succumb to ultimatums from Iran, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Paris on Tuesday.
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OECD HEAD GURRIA INVITES MNUCHIN TO PARIS FOR TALKS IN COMING WEEKS ON INTERNATIONAL TAX REFORM WITH FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire branded the U.S. threat unacceptable and said the French tax did not discriminate against American companies.
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"All ideas merit consideration, even the most far-fetched ones," the French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, said in a radio interview.
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"His comments are shocking and not worthy of the president of the world's greatest superpower," Le Maire told BFM television on Sunday.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said last month Germany and France must make progress on the joint deposit guarantee scheme by June.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called on G7 central bank governors to compile demands related to Libra ahead of the group's August meeting.
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"I am giving myself until March to reach a deal on a European tax on digital giants," Le Maire told France 2 television.
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Le Maire also said French banks with branches in Italy had issued corporate and household loans totalling 280 billion euros (248.73 billion pounds).
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PA), Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday after Carlos Ghosn, chairman of the French carmaker's Japanese partner Nissan Motor Co (7201.
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But suddenly, and very curiously, people cheered up to give a standing ovation to the French Economy and Finance Minister, Bruno Le Maire.
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Bruno Le Maire, the finance minister, warned that the state would not "mop up the losses of Air France" by bailing it out.
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FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS BETWEEN ALLIES WE SHOULD SOLVE DISPUTES IN OTHER WAYS THAT THROUGH U.S. PROBE INTO PLANNED DIGITAL TAX
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But the main declared hopefuls - former prime ministers Alain Juppe and Francois Fillon and ex-agriculture minister Bruno Le Maire - were conspicuously absent.
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The finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, talked in the summer of trying to sell roughly one-tenth of the country's vast public holdings.
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Bruno Le Maire, the finance minister, now forecasts a government budget surplus by 2022, which would be the first for France since 1974.
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But the government backed Ghosn's salary at Thursday's board meeting after he agreed to a significant cut, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.
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Le Maire, Schaeuble, Padoan and de Guindos of Spain said they wanted to present the issue to other EU counterparts at a Sept.
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Bruno Le Maire, France's finance minister, spoke to two news outlets about how a rule could permit the EU to help sanctioned firms.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire welcomed the plan, which would give Paris a say in two of the world's top four carmakers.
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Prior to the expected announcement, the French Finance Minister, Bruno Le Maire, said Thursday that Europe would take "all necessary measures" to respond.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has called for an overhaul of EU competition rules, which date in their current form from 2004.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday the French government welcomed the planned rail operations tie-up between Siemens (SIEGn.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said France wants to reach a deal before the upcoming G7 meeting at the end of August.
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German officials are not ruling out Le Maire, but they have also expressed a preference for giving the post to a smaller country.
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"That is why we ask for the possibility to lower the state's stake in Engie below the legal limit," Le Maire told senators.
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Le Maire explained that a budget should have two main aims: to foster economic convergence and to help states hit by economic shocks.
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As for the upcoming European tax plans on big tech companies, Le Maire said that it will become effective by the end 2018.
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Speaking at a financial services conference in Paris, Le Maire said that London's detailed Brexit proposals last week were positive but uncertainty remained.
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"It remains an interesting opportunity," Le Maire told franceinfo radio, a week after Fiat Chrysler withdrew its proposal for a $35 billion merger.
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In an interview with Bloomberg Television on Thursday, Bruno Le Maire, France's finance minister, said Mr. Ghosn had stepped down the night before.
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Le Maire said measures undertaken by the state to soften the economic impact of the coronavirus would cost "dozens of billions" of euros.
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Le Maire urged big companies to show "moderation" about paying dividends to their shareholders and also to pay their suppliers strictly on time.
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Renee LiddellHis Excellency Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy and FinanceThe Honorable James Mattis, Secretary of DefenseThe Honorable Kevin McCarthy and Mrs.
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Le Maire said the U.S. has not imposed tariffs on the full $7.5 billion worth of retaliation it was granted by the WTO.
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FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER LE MAIRE SAYS HE WILL TALK TO RENAULT TO MAKE SURE INDUSTRIAL DECISIONS DO NOT AFFECT JOBS, FACTORIES IN FRANCE
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said that while it was up to Gemalto's board to decide on the offer, the government had concerns.
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"No definitive decision has been taken on the time-frame for now," Le Maire told reporters at a conference in Aix-en-Provence.
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"But we have a way to go in order to get to a common position that is ambitious and targeted," Le Maire said.
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Recent remarks by Bruno Le Maire, the economy minister of France, showed that the name to replace Draghi is far from being decided.
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" French finance minister Bruno Le Maire also said Thursday he's canceling his plans to attend next week's conference, dubbed "Davos in the Desert.
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Le Maire urged big companies to show "moderation" about paying dividends to their shareholders and also to pay their suppliers strictly on time.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire welcomed on Wednesday the release of former Renault boss Carlos Ghosn from jail in Japan.
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"There are only losers in a trade war," Le Maire said in a statement on Twitter, adding that France regretted the U.S. announcement.
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"I want us ... to take a closer look at the management and the overall economic balance of big state energy and transport companies to ensure they are run in the best way possible," Le Maire told BFM TV. Earlier this week, Le Maire said France would begin selling stakes it holds in companies over the coming months to finance projects geared towards innovation.
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"Carlos Ghosn is no longer in a position where he is capable of leading Renault," Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told France Info radio.
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Japanese public broadcaster NHK quoted French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire as telling journalists that an integration proposal was "not on the table now".
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PARIS (Reuters) - The "yellow vest" protest movement will have a severe impact on the French economy, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday.
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Le Maire also reiterated concerns about U.S. tax reform leading to a "race to the bottom", saying that "fiscal dumping" was a dead-end.
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"We should take our time to make sure that things are done well," Le Maire told BFM TV on Wednesday, regarding the merger talks.
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But they seemed to reach a new level last weekend when France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire publicly stated Paris' frustration with the group.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the government would not take the process any further while a referendum was being pursued by opposition politicians.
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FCA's bid presents a "real opportunity for Renault and the French automotive industry", Finance Minister Le Maire told domestic news agency Agence France-Presse.
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"I don't want our companies to suffer from American decisions that we do not share," Le Maire told the conference of European financial experts.
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"Cyber threats are proof that we need more multilateralism and more cooperation between our countries," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told the conference.
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French Finance and Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire has said the country has a strategy to reinforce a fragile alliance between Renault and Nissan.
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"What is at the heart of this strategy is the reinforcement of the alliance between Renault and Nissan" Le Maire told CNBC on Sunday.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire at the time said he was "shocked" by the decision as the plant benefited from a research tax credit.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire had said the package was "incomprehensible and shocking" since Plassat had left the company in a "deteriorated situation".
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"These digital giants are turning into private states states over which citizens have no control and where democracy has no place," Le Maire said.
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The two ministers are to discuss euro zone integration with their Italian and Spanish counterparts over dinner on Monday in Brussels, Le Maire said.
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France's Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said that his government regretted the move, and warned that there were "only losers" in a trade war.
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"We will look at all the possible options," Le Maire told the French parliament on Tuesday, in response to a question from a lawmaker.
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Earlier on in the day, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said in an interview that embattled executive Carlos Ghosn had resigned from Renault.
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French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire reiterated on Wednesday that the government would keep a close eye on the staff cut plans at Carrefour.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire met with his German counterpart, Olaf Scholz, in Paris on Saturday in an attempt to narrow their differences.
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"These digital giants are turning into private states – states over which citizens have no control and where democracy has no place," Le Maire said.
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In order to avoid penalizing companies who already pay taxes in France, the amount paid will be deductible from pretax income, Le Maire said.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has agreed to lead consultations among European countries to find a candidate by the end of the month.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Tuesday said a global market sell-off was an expected correction of high asset prices.
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"Cyber threats are proof that we need more multilateralism and more cooperation between our countries," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told the conference.
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Failure to do so "would give the impression to the European people that we are weak," Le Maire told reporters European metals industry conference.
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Bruno Le Maire, a center-right politician, gave the equivalent of a gallic shrug in an interview with the right-leaning newspaper Le Figaro.
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Le Maire said it was "out of the question" that Libra becomes a "sovereign currency," Bloomberg reported, citing comments made on Europe 1 radio.
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Le Maire told radio station France Info that he would be asking Renault representatives to put in place new temporary leadership for the company.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told reporters that "all options are on the table", including counter-measures to limit U.S. imports to Europe.
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Le Maire, who abandoned France's conservative Les Republicans party to join Macron's government, was categorical in his pledge to keep a lid on taxes.
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"He (Culp) assured him (Le Maire) that General Electric would respect its contractual commitments with the French state," the ministry said in a statement.
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"These pressures are unacceptable, we'll let Amazon know," Le Maire told France Inter radio station, when asked to comment Amazon's attitude toward its workers.
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Speaking at an OECD conference in Paris Thursday, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said libra would put the sovereignty of governments at risk.
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Mr. Le Maire has also expressed hope that smoothing relations with Nissan could open the door to renewed talks between Renault and Fiat Chrysler.
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But Mr. Le Maire told his representative on the board that he wanted a five-day delay to court the Japanese, the WSJ reported.
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"Europe refuses to allow the U.S. to be the trade policeman of the world," Bruno Le Maire, the economy minister, told The Financial Times.
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"We know how important it is for us to be as attractive as possible for foreign investors," Mr. Le Maire told reporters on Tuesday.
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"We now must move to a new phase," Bruno Le Maire, France's finance minister, said in an interview on the French television channel LCI.
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"Global trade is not a gunfight at the O.K. Corral," Bruno Le Maire, France's finance minister, said on Thursday after meeting with Mr. Ross.
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Speaking at the same conference, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said that the government could cut spending and taxes at the same time.
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During a visit to London, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said finance companies would have to rely on what is known as equivalence.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said he had ordered a review to determine which French industries needed to rebuild an "economic and strategic independence".
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has reinforced his government's stance that the benefits of the European Union cannot be enjoyed by non-members.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire branded the latest U.S. tariff threat unacceptable and said the French tax did not discriminate against American companies.
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Following talks between Le Maire and his Japanese counterpart Hiroshige Seko on Tuesday, the ministers reaffirmed their "shared wish to maintain this winning cooperation".
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"It is not what one would expect from an ally, it is not what one would expect from the United States," Le Maire said.
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"I think the first is to have a common response from the member states from the European Union," Bruno Le Maire said on Monday.
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Altmaier, one of Chancellor Angela Merkel's closest allies, will then travel to Paris for talks with his French counterpart Bruno Le Maire on Thursday.
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"The law's ultimate objective is more growth and the creation of a new French economic growth model," Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told reporters.
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Le Maire wants to update that statute to deal with the US's threats to impose sanctions on companies and banks doing business with Iran.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French economy minister Bruno Le Maire and his Japanese counterpart Hiroshige Seko reaffirmed on Thursday their support for the Renault-Nissan (RENA.
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Bedizzole (BS), Maire Tecnimont presents new energy transition facility of its unit NextChem (1003 GMT) followed by news conference with top management (1100 GMT).
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"There is need for clarity on why the delay and how it will in the end facilitate an agreement," Le Maire told Franceinfo television.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday that the French government welcomed the planned tie-up, which he said would protect French jobs.
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" Le Maire said in an interview with Public Senat TV. "What's getting in the way, as always in Europe, is a lack of political will.
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Le Maire said far more was at stake for Britain as all estimates indicated Brexit would have only a limited impact on French economic growth.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Europe would respond to any sanctions by the U.S. government on investments in Cuba, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday.
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Le Maire said at a press conference in Brussels last week that the aim is to have a euro zone budget in place in 2021.
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Pour prendre le pouls politique du village, j'ai pris contact avec le maire d'Hérouxville, Bernard Thompson, défenseur de la première heure du code de vie.
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While Le Maire has appeared well briefed, Italy's leaders seemed blindsided and Salvini's suggestion that Italy could mirror France's stake signalled concerns over Rome's influence.
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Bruno Le Maire, a Republican former Europe minister, said he would be prepared to work in a Macron government if no party secured a majority.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said this month he was considering setting up legal tools to help the management in French companies resist activists.
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Le Maire was speaking days after Italy's Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV called off a proposed merger with Renault citing the interference of the French government.
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Le Maire said he had so far not received "positive signs" from Washington about joint French, German and British requests for exemptions from the sanctions.
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A computer scientist with an interest in artificial intelligence (AI), Maire has developed an automated detection system which searches for dugongs in the drone's images.
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PARIS (Reuters Breakingviews) - Bruno Le Maire is either the greatest investment banker roaming the earth, or a living transfiguration of Charles de Gaulle's industrial policy.
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Le Maire said talks with the Chinese were extraordinarily difficult and that France had "made an effort" on the price to try to unblock negotiations.
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Speaking after a meeting of G7 finance ministers in Canada, Le Maire said that the fiscal capacity was at the core of the French proposals.
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"I still need a little time to discuss with the banks and associations," Le Maire told an economic conference in Aix-en-Provence, southern France.
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Le Maire will meet Hoekstra to discuss the standoff later this week, officials said, with one likening its behavior to that of a "corporate raider".
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France's Le Maire has been an outspoken proponent of a digital tax, arguing Google, Amazon and Facebook benefit from lower tax rates than European companies.
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"I'm aware our stake acquisition is not very orthodox, but it is based on good intentions," Hoekstra told reporters after the talks with Le Maire.
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"The sovereignty of nations cannot be jeopardised," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told journalists after chairing the first day of the two-day meeting.
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Le Maire will meet Hoekstra to discuss the standoff later this week, officials said, with one likening its behaviour to that of a "corporate raider".
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"The figure announced regarding Tom Enders is obviously excessive and could harm the reputation of Airbus," Finance Minister Bruno le Maire told Les Echos newspaper.
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And Le Maire confirmed that Europe will look at the overall revenue of tech giants in each country and tax them based on that figure.
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PARIS, March 6 (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire welcomed on Wednesday the release of former Renault boss Carlos Ghosn from jail in Japan.
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"We're not going to propose that Mr. Ghosn step down for the simple reason that we don't have any evidence," Le Maire said on Nov.
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Le Maire also wants the euro zone to quickly thrash out plans for a shared budget aimed at encouraging convergence among the euro zone's economies.
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"We have a huge challenge with the question of the GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon)," Le Maire told CNBC at the Women's Forum in Paris.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said last week that equivalence was the best that Britain was likely to get for financial services after Brexit.
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Le Maire is also due to see Christian Lindner, leader of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP), and Cem Oezdemir, co-leader of the Greens party.
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Le Maire spoke on entering a meeting of euro zone finance ministers, which is to discuss the Commission's unprecedented rejection of Italy's 2019 draft budget.
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"We've already got some early information of flooding, flooded houses and submerged roads," Maire said in a video recording posted on the prefecture's Twitter handle.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Wednesday the government would do everything possible to keep the deficit as close as possible to 3 percent.
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Le Maire also said he expected the European Union to close tax loopholes that benefit Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon by the start of 2019.
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Le Maire also said that Washington should make a gesture of goodwill in particular on tariffs Trump slapped on European aluminum and steel in June.
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BRUSSELS, July 8 (Reuters) - France supports the European Commission's decision to avert a debt procedure against Italy, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday.
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"I think it was a good decision," Le Maire told reporters before a meeting of euro zone finance ministers that will discuss Italy's public finances.
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"I won't hesitate to use all means available to protect big French companies," Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on a conference call with journalists.
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Bruno Le Maire told French newspaper La Croix that the trade war between the world's biggest two economies was the biggest threat to global growth.
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"There is no fair taxation of this new economic model," Bruno Le Maire, France's finance minister, said at the G-20 meeting in Fukuoka, Japan.
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"Carlos Ghosn just resigned, last night, and now it is time to define and to put a new governance in place," Mr. Le Maire said.
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Le Maire said he spoke on Sunday to U.S Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin about the issue and was also in contact with his European counterparts.
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Meanwhile, Le Maire said he would not sign off on any state guarantee for a loan to a company that did not scrap its dividend.
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In France, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Tuesday that he had drawn up a list of companies that might need funds from the government.
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Annual general meetings: CNH Industrial (13 GMT), FCA (1000 GMT), Ferrari (1300 GMT), Poste Italiane (1200 GMT), Banca Mediolanum (0800 GMT), Maire Tecnimont (0830 GMT).
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Annual general meetings: CNH Industrial (0700 GMT), FCA (1000 GMT), Ferrari (1300 GMT), Poste Italiane (1200 GMT), Banca Mediolanum (13 GMT), Maire Tecnimont (0830 GMT).
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PARIS, Jan 6 (Reuters) - French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire on Monday warned the United States against any retaliation to France's new digital services tax.
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If the OECD talks break down, Le Maire said that France will have some form of digital tax in place at the end of 2020.
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"The first foreign sovereign investment fund to invest in the French fund is Abu Dhabi's," Le Maire told reporters during a visit to Abu Dhabi.
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"Carlos Ghosn is no longer in a position where he is capable of leading Renault," Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said earlier in the day.
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"If some of the investments touch on national sovereignty or sensitive technologies, it's up to us the government to set certain limits," Le Maire added.
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While Le Maire has appeared well briefed, Italy's leaders seemed blindsided and Salvini's suggestion that Italy could mirror France's stake signaled concerns over Rome's influence.
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Le Maire told CNews television that the government had written to Renault's leadership to "request all details necessary for full transparency on these compensation payments".
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire demanded that, as one of the main conditions for talks to progress, the deal needed the backing of Nissan.
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French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, for example, told French radio that Trump had made "an error" that carried both security risks and economic ones.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Global trade tensions will weigh on global growth in the coming months, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday, urging China to play an important role in WTO reform "The trade war that we are seeing will have an important and negative impact on global growth in the coming months," Le Maire told journalists after talks with Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told Reuters on Friday that Paris could overtake London as Europe's most important financial centre in a matter of years.
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But in the right-leaning newspaper Le Figaro, party stalwarts such as former candidates Bruno Le Maire and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet offered Fillon their "total support".
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"We refuse to negotiate with a gun to the head," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told France24 on Saturday, just four days before Juncker's visit.
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U.K. Trade Secretary Liam Fox, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra have pulled out of the Future Investment Initiative event.
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Asked about Nissan's reaction so far, Le Maire replied: "I look at the reaction of Nissan president Mr Saikawa, and it's a reaction that is open."
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Le Maire said he would contact his Japanese counterpart over the matter, and reiterated that France's priority was to ensure the stability of the Renault company.
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A joint Franco-German declaration agreed last month by Le Maire and his German counterpart had spoken of an EU agreement for the end of 2018.
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Altmaier will also discuss how to improve governance of the 19-member single currency bloc with his French counterpart, Bruno Le Maire, on Thursday in Paris.
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Le Maire said he hoped Europe could create a leading naval company similar to the Alstom-Siemens tie-up at a Franco-Italian summit in Lyon.
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Le Maire warned said he had asked the heads of the central banks of G7 countries to write a report on the issue by mid-July.
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The protest movement will have "a severe impact" on the economy, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said as he toured a heavily looted central Paris neighborhood.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The proposed merger of German lenders Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank could indirectly serve French financial interests, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Wednesday.
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Le Maire did not identify either the Chinese firm nor the U.S. fund which he said were interested in the St Gobain Pont-A-Mousson plant.
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"We've always said we wanted a leader for Air France with a deep knowledge of aviation," Le Maire said during a Thursday visit to southwest France.
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"It's a very high cost, it's of the order of 0.2 percentage points of quarterly growth, so it's a lot," Le Maire told Public Senat television.
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BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - French Economy minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday that talks with Belgian transmissions supplier Punch Powerglide over the purchase of Ford's (F.
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Le Maire said Paris had offered "important concessions" and now expected others to do the same so that decisions could be taken in the coming months.
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France's Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire held a press conference earlier today to announce that France will tax big tech companies starting on January 1st, 2019.
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Separately, le Maire said he was confident that Italian leaders were aware of the importance of decisions to be taken as part of the next budget.
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"We are of the view that there is a unique window of opportunity to improve the situation and make the euro zone stronger," Le Maire said.
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Switching between fluent German and French, Le Maire said Franco-German working groups should be created to discuss reform on a "weekly or even daily basis".
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French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said Sunday that Nissan had not yet shared details with Renault or his government, which owns 893% of the carmaker.
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The skills of Bruno Le Maire are indeed a plus, such as his fluency in German, but he is also perceived as a right-wing politician.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers should decide on Monday to disburse the fourth tranche of aid to Greece, France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.
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"It is normal that Bercy (the French finance ministry) would want to make sure Egypt should be able to pay its plane orders," Le Maire said.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said that there were no grounds for the European Commission to veto the proposed merger of Alstom's (ALSO.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Thursday criticized a reported bumper pay deal for Tom Enders, the outgoing chief executive of planemaker Airbus.
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"We want to carry out a careful control of this 5G deployment ... without designating an operator as unwelcome in France," Le Maire told reporters on Tuesday.
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Renault Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard presented an FCA-Renault merger plan to French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Friday, Les Echos reported on its website.
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In the interview, Le Maire noted that two large systemic banks were already headquartered in Paris, in BNP and Societe Generale, and pointed to other strengths.
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Le Maire said that "all options are on the table" including retaliation before the World Trade Organisation and countermeasures to limit European imports of U.S. goods.
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"This is a law which will help our economy and prepare us for the future," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told reporters in the parliament.
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Le Maire told France Inter radio that the amount needed for the stimulus plan will be discussed at a March 16 meeting with his European counterparts.
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"That can be done by recapitalisation, that can be done by taking a stake, I can even use the term nationalisation if necessary," Le Maire added.
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Over the weekend, France's finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, said he might be willing to reduce that stake if it would strengthen the Renault-Nissan alliance.
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Then France's finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, stunned those present with a request to delay the vote for five days to consult with his Japanese counterpart.
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Le Maire also told a news conference that the government will put in place a solidarity fund for the companies worst impacted by the coronavirus outbreak.
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"We'll do whatever it takes, and more than what it takes, to support our economy and our businesses," Mr. Le Maire said Friday on French television.
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PARIS, March 3 (Reuters) - France expects solidarity and flexibility from all European economic authorities on the coronavirus outbreak, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday.
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" A day later, the finance minister of France, Bruno Le Maire, wrote in the Financial Times that Libra was "unacceptable for both economic and political reasons.
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"I am not taking the money of the French and putting it in a company that isn't at the required competitive level," Mr. Le Maire said.
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Renee Liddell His Excellency Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy and Finance The Honorable James Mattis, Secretary of Defense The Honorable Kevin McCarthy and Mrs.
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"This epidemic shows that supply problems create strategic problems in certain industries," Le Maire told journalists after meeting industry leaders about the impact of the outbreak.
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Anthony Koenig, l'adjoint au maire chargé de l'urbanisme, tâtonne un moment de ses mains glacées avant de trouver la clé de cette maison du XVIe siècle.
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EU TRADE COMMISSIONER HOGAN SAYS HE AND LE MAIRE DISCUSSED ISSUE OF HAVING A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD WITH CHINA IN AREAS SUCH AS TECHNOLOGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
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The report is to be discussed on Wednesday evening in Davos, with speakers including Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.
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The report is to be discussed on Wednesday evening in Davos, with speakers including Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.
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"In 2017, we're targeting 2.9 percent of public deficit and in 2018, we're targeting 2.6 percent," Le Maire said in an interview with France 2 television.
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Le Maire insisted he was not simply reiterating such calls for more spending from Germany, as France was pushing ahead with reforms of its economic model.
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Liam Fox, the UK trade secretary, and the French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, and his Dutch counterpart, Wopke Hoekstra, also pulled out of the conference.
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Before the ruling, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire had repeated the government position that bosses of state-controlled companies should quit if convicted of a crime.
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"The first transaction will be a limited one, but this is a starting point and we expect Instex to be an efficient tool," Le Maire added.
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"Fundamentally, I believe in this project," finance minister Bruno Le Maire told CNews television, adding that privatising ADP would cut France's debts and boost the overall economy.
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"It is useless to produce weapons through improved cooperation between France and Germany if we are unable to export them," Le Maire told Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire demanded a "permanent and total exemption" from the tariffs and said that European Union countries would respond with their own measures.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire slammed pro-Brexit politicians in the U.K., claiming they lied to the public in the run-up to the 2016 referendum.
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Speaking alongside Mnuchin, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire also said that U.S. Treasury Secretary for International Affairs was a "good candidate" to lead the World Bank.
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"Fundamentally, I believe in this project," finance minister Bruno Le Maire told CNews television, adding that privatizing ADP would cut France's debts and boost the overall economy.
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"Obviously it's up to the European competition authority to ensure that this operation does not pose any problems," Le Maire told the French Senate's European affairs commission.
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"This money will allow this company to assemble even more data, which only increases our determination to regulate the internet giants," Le Maire said, according to Bloomberg.
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Mr Le Maire is now piloting through parliament a bill, known as PACTE, designed to cut red tape and help small companies invest, grow and create jobs.
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PARIS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Carlos Ghosn is no longer fit to lead Renault following his arrest in Japan, said French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Tuesday.
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He has built further legitimacy with a post-partisan government, stealing his prime minister, Edouard Philippe, and his finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, from the centre-right.
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French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said that Germany should ease its strict arms export rules for countries outside the European Union to strengthen the defence industry.
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This week Peter Altmaier, Germany's economy minister, and Bruno Le Maire, his French counterpart, unveiled a joint five-page industrial-policy manifesto "fit for the 21st century".
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"Between allies we can and should solve our disputes not by threats but through other ways," Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told senators before the final vote.
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Maire told Mashable that his automated detection system, which uses Google's machine-learning program TensorFlow, has been trained to pick out dugongs by their size and color.
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It's too early to determine whether Le Maire, who works for President Emmanuel Macron, himself a former Rothschild financier, deserves the merger advisor of the year trophy.
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"What was unfriendly about this was the lack of warning," European Affairs Minister Nathalie Loiseau told CNews television as Le Maire and Hoekstra were about to meet.
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"If we are incapable of re-establishing a fair tax system, of taxing the digital giants, we will pay for it at the ballot box," Maire said.
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Le Maire said the reform priorities of Bretton Woods institutions should be focused on fighting climate change, curbing rising inequalities and regulating the emergence of digital giants.
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"I regret that current political difficulties in some European countries is holding up major progress on policy," le Maire said at a conference at Paris-Dauphine University.
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After months of speculations, France's economy minister Bruno Le Maire announced in an interview with the JDD that Europe's new tax model for tech giants is happening.
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Over the weekend, French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire had confirmed that Capron was "one candidate among several others" for the post of Air France KLM CEO.
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GE Chief Executive John Flannery informed French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire this week that the target was now "out of reach" because of difficult market conditions.
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"We want the negotiations to stick to the principals of transparency and multilateralism," Le Maire said as he arrived for a conference at the French finance ministry.
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France will begin selling stakes it holds in companies over the coming months to finance projects geared towards innovation, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Wednesday.
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"All ideas merit consideration, even the most far-fetched ones," Bruno Le Maire said, noting that the Channel Tunnel already linked Europe's second- and third-largest economies.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the government will keep a close eye over the impact on jobs and technologies that are deemed important to France's sovereignty.
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Antitrust policy is supposed to protect customers, whom Le Maire is effectively asking to subsidise a European champion – unhelpfully similar to the complaint he levels at China.
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The State, which currently owns 72% of FDJ, will retain a 20% stake, allowing it to weigh on governance and strategic choices, Le Maire told Le Parisien.
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Carlos Ghosn has resigned from French carmaker Renault, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire told Bloomberg Television in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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"When you have Nigel Farage at more than 35 percent of the vote that won't be easy for the European Union to manage," Bruno Le Maire said.
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Le Maire sought to soothe German concerns that such a levy could tax data exchanged or sold between a car manufacturer and a supplier of car equipment.
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"Between allies, we can and should solve our disputes not by threats but through other ways," Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told senators before the final vote.
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China, the world's top consumer of pork, is set to approve more imports of French pork, processed meat and infant formula after passing inspections, Le Maire said.
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" Borne's comments follow similar remarks by French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who said last week that he felt a Renault/Fiat merger remained a "good opportunity.
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Bruno Le Maire, France's finance minister, said he told Mr. Mnuchin on Monday that the entire European Union must be exempt from the steel and aluminum tariffs.
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As for the chairman's position, Mr. Le Maire urged in the television interview that Jean-Dominique Senard, the chief executive of the tire maker Michelin, be considered.
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"I'm watching the interest rates everyday, we want the European Union to show its determination and its solidarity," Bruno Le Maire told journalists on a conference call.
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"We have to mobilize all our forces," Bruno Le Maire, the French finance minister, told RTL radio Tuesday, adding further details to the promises made by Macron.
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While the ECB was in the front line of the crisis response, the European Stability Mechanism bailout fund was also available to be used, Le Maire added.
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Le Maire also told a press conference it was important to consider all options including budgetary measures to deal with the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Some, like the education minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, and the economy minister, Bruno Le Maire, say that the veil, while legal, is not "desirable" in French society.
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Le Maire said that by 2025 the overhaul of French corporate law was expected to boost overall gross domestic product by one percent over the long term.
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State-backed investment bank Bpifrance and Mubadala will both commit one billion euros to the fund which will launch next month, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.
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"We hope to reach a resolution by Wednesday," Le Maire told LCI television on Monday, adding he would meet U.S. counterparts at the Davos forum this week.
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France's finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, said Wednesday that the United States and France had found a path forward in the O.E.C.D. negotiations to set digital taxes.
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Two of the most senior leaders in Macron's government are also "énarques", as its graduates are called: Prime Minister Édouard Philippe and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.
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Speaking at the MEDEF Summer University conference in Paris on Wednesday, Le Maire told CNBC's Joumanna Bercetche that all sides were willing to avoid a hard Brexit.
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Speaking at the Women's Forum in Paris, Le Maire told CNBC that the euro zone should now focus on fiscal stimulus, rather than lowering interest rates further.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said he would make the proposal to his euro zone counterparts on Thursday on the sidelines of a G7 meeting in Washington.
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"We can't just stand there with our arms crossed in the face of the marked and worrying global slowdown," Le Maire told a French parliamentary finance commission.
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According to some lawmakers, Le Maire and Senate president Gerard Larcher were pushing Fillon to step down in Juppe's favor, but Sarkozy loyalists balked at the idea.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said he was still waiting for evidence of wrongdoing by Ghosn - adding that a new audit would be carried out at Renault.
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The trade talks will also be high on the agenda during a meeting of Altmaier with his French counterpart Bruno Le Maire in Berlin later on Tuesday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The United States and France should find means other than threats to solve the problem of how to tax big tech firms, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday after Washington launched a probe into France's planned digital tax "Between allies we can and should solve our disputes not by threats but through other ways," Le Maire told senators ahead of a final vote on the tax.
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Judges: Videesha Böckle (signals VC), Rob Coneybeer (Shasta Ventures), Avid Larizadeh Duggan (GV), Christophe Maire (Atlantic Labs) and Keld van Schreven (KR1) 12:20 PM – 12:40 PM
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PARIS (Reuters) - Political interventions might not be the best way to help ousted car executive Carlos Ghosn, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told FranceInfo radio on Tuesday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The European Union has more pressing priorities than Britain's future relationship with the bloc, starting with its own future, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.
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PARIS, May 3 (Reuters) - France will offer savers broader income tax exemptions on money they set aside for retirement, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday.
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Le Maire told franceinfo radio he was not responsible for derailing the proposal that would have created the world's third biggest carmaker behind Japan's Toyota and Germany's Volkswagen.
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Speaking after a meeting with industry groups and business federations affected by the movement, Le Maire said sector revenues had been hit by between 15 and 50 percent.
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"It would be good for France and Poland to examine together the possibility of collaboration in the nuclear domain," Le Maire said during an economic forum in Poland.
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PARIS, March 20 (Reuters) - The proposed merger of German lenders Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank could indirectly serve French financial interests, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Wednesday.
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In a separate report handed to Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire on Tuesday, a consumer affairs body stressed the need to review the product recall process in France.
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"We know that it will take a long time," said General Gratien Maire, deputy head of the French defense staff, said at an event in Brussels on Sunday.
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A fluent German-speaker, Mr Le Maire has already held some 35 hours of meetings with Olaf Scholz, his German counterpart, twice working through the night until dawn.
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At a news conference before a meeting of euro zone finance ministers in Luxembourg, Le Maire said states were waiting for the Commission's assessment of the Italian budget.
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France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who has long been the main supporter of the tax, accepted delaying its implementation to the end of 2020, a major concession.
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THERE IS, SAYS Bruno Le Maire, France's finance minister, a need for "European sovereignty in the face of digital giants, which are now as powerful as sovereign states".
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Several ministers, including Le Maire, have said they will stand in the parliamentary election, and Philippe confirmed that they would have to quit the government if they lost.
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France's Bruno Le Maire appeared to be keen on the job in September and October, but in recent weeks said he had enough work already without EU responsibilities.
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"Europe will only remain a great industrial continent if we're able to join forces, change European rules that are now outdated and better protect ourselves," Le Maire said.
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Speaking after talks with his German counterpart in Paris, Le Maire said that a joint French-German position would spur other euro zone members to come on board.
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The former President Nicolas Sarkozy and the former Prime Minister Alain Juppe are considered the frontrunners while Bruno Le Maire and Francois Fillon are among the other contenders.
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" French Economy minister Bruno Le Maire said in a statement after Trump's tweet that "the universal taxation of digital activities is a challenge that concerns all of us.
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The plan was originally intended to be presented this week but the government decided to postpone it after the summer break to make further tweaks, Le Maire said.
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Maire Walsh: I don't know if I totally agree with that, because I feel so much, in like some odd way, some odd passion right now around podcasts.
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"We have ... an immediate priority, which is the completion of the banking union, the completion of the capital markets union and tax convergence with Germany," Le Maire said.
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The French economy should grow about 1.4 percent this year, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said, revising down the forecast of 1.7 percent growth in this year's budget.
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"So let's work during the G7... on that key question of digital taxation because this is for us the best way to fix this issue," Le Maire added.
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Le Maire was responding to U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to tax French wines in retaliation for France's digital services tax, which Trump says unjustly targets U.S. companies.
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Le Maire was responding to U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to tax French wines in retaliation for France's digital services tax, which he says unjustly targets U.S. companies.
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In another twist, former agriculture minister Bruno Le Maire said he would resign from Fillon's campaign team over his vow to stay in the race despite the summons.
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"Italy is an essential partner of the euro zone and an essential partner in Europe," Le Maire said on entering talks of euro zone finance ministers in Brussels.
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PARIS, April 4 (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Thursday criticised a reported bumper pay deal for Tom Enders, the outgoing chief executive of planemaker Airbus .
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PARIS, April 4 (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Thursday criticized a reported bumper pay deal for Tom Enders, the outgoing chief executive of planemaker Airbus .
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The finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, has written a novel entitled 'Le Ministre' (The Minister), which includes a steamy scene between the minister and his wife in Venice.
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"We have to find solutions and to define at a multi-lateral level and at the level of the G20 a fair and efficient regulation," Le Maire said.
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"France has every interest in becoming the first major financial center to propose an ad-hoc legislative framework for companies making an Initial Coin Offering," Le Maire wrote.
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Le Maire said on Tuesday France would seek four guarantees in exchange for supporting a proposed merger between Renault and Fiat Chrysler, including preserving industrial jobs and factories.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the initial public offering, one of the biggest in Paris in years, was drawing strong interest from investors at home and abroad.
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Altmaier, one of Chancellor Angela Merkel's closest allies, will then travel to Paris for talks on the same issue with his French counterpart Bruno Le Maire on Thursday.
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A public digital currency would represent an alternative to Libra and other private projects, and could reduce costs of international transactions, which Le Maire said were too high.
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Speaking on Sunday, French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said that Nissan had not yet shared details with Renault or his government, which owns 15% of the company.
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"It's a very strong signal, firstly that financial stability will be decided in Paris," Le Maire said on the sidelines of an innovation conference at the Finance Ministry.
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Le Maire also said he wanted workers' bonuses to be made tax exempt as soon as possible, in a gesture to the movement protesting against weak purchasing power.
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"We're minority shareholders ... those that think that whatever happens the state will come to Air France's rescue and soak up Air France's losses are mistaken," Le Maire said.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France will not hesitate to take further steps to protect its citizens from the spread of the coronavirus, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The French government is open to tie-ups involving Renault as long as French industrial interests are protected, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday.
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Soon after the visit, Japanese news outlets reported that France was seeking to compel a merger between Nissan and Renault, prompting a heated denial by Mr. Le Maire.
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Mr. Le Maire said the decision to push for the carmaker to replace Mr. Ghosn was linked to the need to preserve jobs and stability at the alliance.
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G7 finance ministers will also discuss this week how best to cushion the impact of the outbreak on economic growth, French Finance Minister Le Maire said on Monday.
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"Italians must understand that the future of Italy is in Europe and nowhere else, but there are rules to respect," said the French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The French government has enough money to be able to pay its civil servants during the coronavirus crisis, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday.
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The finance and economy minister, Bruno Le Maire, has promised "tens of billions of euros" to help businesses and others in order to keep the French economy going.
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Le Maire said that during times of economic crisis, citizens may abandon national currencies in favor of Libra, making it very difficult for governments to manage the economy.
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"Today I will have a talk with the heads of Renault and PSA as the car sector has come to a halt," Le Maire told BFM Business radio.
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On Tuesday, the country's finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, said the French government welcomed the deal with Siemens, characterizing it as one that protected French jobs at Alstom.
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"Governments must be able to tax companies in countries with excessively low taxes," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Twitter, welcoming the news from the OECD.
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France and the US have set a two-week deadline to reach a compromise over a controversial digital tax, French finance minister Bruno le Maire told reporters Tuesday.
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Joseph Le Chapelain, le maire de Saint-Paul-de-Vence qui a signé le permis de construire l'année dernière, explique que le projet n'est plus de son ressort.
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"If there were to be sanctions, and it is a possibility that we will take sanctions, we would immediately contact the WTO [World Trade Organization]," Le Maire added.
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"It's sends a strong signal that Abu Dhabi's fund is investing one billion euros in this French fund," Le Maire told journalists during a visit to Abu Dhabi.
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Pallez's comments echoed those made last week by France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who had also said the privatisation of FDJ would occur in the coming weeks.
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France and the United States have given themselves 15 days to settle a dispute over the taxation of digital companies, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Tuesday.
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Mr. Le Maire said that if anything, the disarray underscored the need for the United States to help formulate an accord on the international taxation of digital services.
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Mr. Le Maire said that if anything, the disarray underscored the need for the United States to help formulate an accord on the international taxation of digital services.
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And it gave France time to prepare its position, with Le Maire on Tuesday laying out four conditions for state approval, including protection of French blue-collar jobs.
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Le Maire is demanding that no "industrial jobs or industrial plants" are axed in France, leaving scope for white-collar and engineering layoffs as well as downsizing plants.
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Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire has been lobbying other European countries so that big tech companies would stop optimizing their European corporate structure to lower their effective tax rate.
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"There is no greater threat to global growth than a trade war between China and the United States," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told a local news channel.
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German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier will meet French counterpart Bruno Le Maire in Paris on Thursday to discuss the matter, aiming to make progress with forging further battery alliances.
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Orange's CFE-CGC union called on Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire in a statement on Sunday not to take any rushed decision on Richard after Tuesday's French court verdict.
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"I hope that we will be able to face Donald Trump and I hope that we will remain strong and united to face the American administration," Le Maire said.
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Le Maire said he would meet Senard later on Thursday, with the chairman's position seen weakened by the deal's collapse and the ensuing fallout with President Emmanuel Macron's government.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday that France would start selling down stakes it holds in companies from September to finance projects geared towards innovation.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France will propose that the G20 group of major economies discuss regulation of the bitcoin virtual currency next year, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday.
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"The subject is not on the table today," Finance Minister Le Maire said on Sunday amid Japanese press reports that France was actively pushing for a Renault-Nissan merger.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Sunday told France Inter radio there were no grounds for the European Commission to veto the proposed merger given the new concessions.
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FRANCE, CARETAKER GOVTS Brussels sent similar warnings to French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, saying under the existing draft budget that Paris would breach EU rules on public debts.
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Mr Le Maire says he is "determined to reduce public spending" but refers to it merely as "advice" and declines to say when, or whether, it will be published.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States offer an opportunity for Europe to develop its own independent financial institutions, France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.
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FRANCE, CARETAKER GOVTS Brussels sent similar warnings to French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, saying under the existing draft budget that Paris would breach EU rules on public debts.
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Le Maire said skills shortages within France's nuclear sector were so severe that most of the weldings in the Flamanville project had to be done by foreign sub-contractors.
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Speaking after a meeting with industry groups and business federations affected by the protest movement, Le Maire said sector revenues had been hit by between 22 and 2200 percent.
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BRUSSELS, March 12 (Reuters) - France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said he wanted EU governments to adopt an updated tax haven blacklist at a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday.
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"Do we want to be vassals who obey decisions taken by the United States while clinging to the hem of their trousers?" asked Bruno Le Maire, France's finance minister.
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Speaking to CNBC ahead of a meeting of finance ministers from the seven largest world economies, Le Maire said that Libra raises questions about money laundering and terrorism financing.
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"This is a concrete example of France's will to overcome certain technical problems that have lasted for months or years and reach a consensus and agreement," Le Maire said.
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Among them are Bruno Le Maire, a former Europe minister, who will head the finance ministry, and Gérald Darmanin, the young Republican mayor of Tourcoing, who becomes budget minister.
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In the process, Le Maire might persuade Fiat to throw some more money at Renault as an admission that the capital markets had undervalued the 16 billion euro company.
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A French official said that Le Maire was due to discuss the issue with President Emmanuel Macron this weekend and that he was likely to speak with Carney beforehand.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire held talks with his German counterpart Peter Altmaier in Paris on Thursday, and said afterwards that an agreement may be difficult by March.
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The French automaker, however, confirmed on Thursday that it was considering new leadership, after Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called publicly for a board meeting to address his succession.
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"Alstom and Siemens will make no additional concessions that could weaken the two groups," Le Maire said in response to a question by a lawmaker in the French Senate.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire weighed into the matter on Saturday saying that the package was "incomprehensible and shocking" since Plassat had left the company in a "deteriorated situation".
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The banking lobby said on Friday that it had told French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire in a meeting that French banks would "naturally" choose Paris to relocate staff.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in February he hoped headway on this accord could even be made in 2019, amid positive noises at that point from Washington.
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"I told him he needs to accelerate jobs creation, because the target has not been met and we have the means to exert all necessary pressure," Le Maire said.
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Le Maire said that it was hard to explain to smaller firms why they were paying much more tax in France, on a relative basis, compared to larger firms.
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"If we want to be able to face competition with Chinese giants, we have to gather the European forces," Bruno Le Maire, French finance minister, told the Financial Times.
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Le Maire maintained that France would lift its digital tax if a deal could be reached at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development on a universal tax.
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Le Maire said that though it was up to the company's board to manage the company, that did not stop the government from "taking its prerogatives as a shareholder".
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"In these conditions we cannot authorize the development of Libra on European soil," said Bruno le Maire at a meeting of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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"Nothing is on the table right now," Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Saturday on the sidelines of a meeting of European finance ministers in Vienna.
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PARIS, Nov 21 (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Wednesday France and Japan were keen to pursue the consolidation of the alliance between Renault and Nissan.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire will meet retailers and insurers on Monday to assess the economic impact of nationwide protests against rising fuel costs, he said on Sunday.
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After meeting German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz in Berlin, Le Maire said they had also made progress towards achieving a compromise position on plans for a digital services tax.
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Le Maire said European companies looking to invest abroad, such as in Iran, could aim to get financing from within Europe, rather than via U.S. dollars or U.S banks.
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Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire has been lobbying for a new tax so that tech giants would stop optimizing their European corporate structure to lower their effective tax rate.
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Le Maire said he and Donohoe agreed that the two countries would work together to pave the way for a common position on digital taxation at the OECD level.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France will begin selling stakes it holds in companies over the coming months to finance projects geared toward innovation, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Wednesday.
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"There must be the adoption of a directive on digital taxation by the end of this year," Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said, using the term for EU laws.
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Christophe Maire, a veteran of the Berlin scene, says it is flourishing, with firms scaling up in fintech, digital health, artificial intelligence, mobility, food technology, cyber-security and more.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Time is running dangerously low for Britain to reach an agreement on its post-Brexit relations with Europe, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Wednesday.
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Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra has also voiced support for Elbers, and met his French counterpart Bruno le Maire on Monday to discuss the situation at Air France-KLM.
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" Le Maire said he would work with his German counterpart, Peter Altmaier, to propose reforms that would adapt European competition law "to the economic reality of the 21st Century.
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G7 finance ministers will also discuss this week how to best to cushion the impact of the outbreak on economic growth, French Finance Minister Le Maire said on Monday.
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Bruno Le Maire, the French finance minister, said last week that France would move ahead on its own if the union did not approve such a tax by March.
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The French economy minister, Bruno Le Maire, said on Tuesday that Mr. Ghosn was "no longer in a position capable of leading Renault" because of his troubles in Japan.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has received three letters containing death threats, including one this week with bullets enclosed, one of his aides said on Wednesday.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the coalition agreement opened the way for convergence with France on reform of the euro zone, something that the SPD had championed.
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"It's entirely up to U.S authorities whether they want to enter into a trade conflict with their biggest partner, Europe," Le Maire told reporters after meeting Ross in Paris.
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Le Maire did not name the bidders, but a union source told Reuters that global number one steelmaker ArcelorMittal, Germany's Saarstahl, Olympus Steel and Britain's Liberty House, were interested.
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Bruno Le Maire, the French finance minister, said in an interview on Sunday he and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had a long discussion on Saturday evening about the language.
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The French government, which owns a minority stake in Air France, would not ride to the rescue with a taxpayer bailout if the airline faltered, Mr. Le Maire said.
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En 2002, M. Girard, l'ancien collaborateur d'Yves Saint Laurent, était devenu adjoint à la culture du maire de Paris, un poste qu'il occupe de nouveau à l'heure qu'il est.
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PARIS, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The coronavirus outbreak will trim 0.1 percentage points from French economic growth this year, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told France's BFM TV on Thursday.
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Mr. Le Maire described the call between Mr. Trump and Mr. Macron as "decisive," having resulted in an agreement that gave more breathing room to work out further details.
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Yet its position is undermined by the fact that Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire repeatedly called the measure a tax on "GAFA" - referring to Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon.
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"Nationalisation is obviously a last resort, but it is something that we do not exclude," Le Maire said, comparing the current economic crisis to the Great Depression of 1929.
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"I note that the Saudi authorities have changed tack, admitted the facts and accepted some responsibility, so we're making progress," Le Maire said on France 3 television on Sunday.
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"All options can be considered," Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told Le Figaro after the deal collapsed, when asked about Japanese pressure for Renault to reduce its Nissan stake.
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Japanese Trade Minister Hiroshige Seko and French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire have also confirmed the need to support the alliance between Nissan and Renault, the Japanese ministry said.
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Japanese Trade Minister Hiroshige Seko and French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire have also confirmed the need to support the alliance between Nissan and Renault, the Japanese ministry said.
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PARIS, July 11 (Reuters) - The United States and France should find means other than threats to solve the problem of how to tax big tech firms, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday after Washington launched a probe into France's planned digital tax "Between allies we can and should solve our disputes not by threats but through other ways," Le Maire told senators ahead of a final vote on the tax.
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Speaking on the sidelines of an economics and business conference in southern France, Le Maire that European finance ministers would discuss the issue at a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's World Cup soccer triumphs, which have taken "Les Bleus" to the tournament final, should be generally positive for the country's economy, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.
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"The real risk now is that we enter into a cold war between China and the United States in which all countries, including Europe, come out losing," Le Maire said.
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"Attracting major U.S. banks to Paris, rather than letting them settle in London, Dublin, Amsterdam or Frankfurt, is about creating jobs in France, bringing wealth to France," Le Maire said.
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PARIS - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire hosts a high-level forum on debt, with IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, Japan Finance Minister Taro Aso in Paris, France - 0630 GMT.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Germany's failure to back a proposed EU tax on big internet companies would damage trust between France and Germany, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire warned on Friday.
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British financial services firms will get no access to European Union markets after Brexit unless they agree to respect EU rules, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday.
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The government will also seek a commitment from the merged company to be involved in a European effort to create an industry for electric-car batteries, Mr. Le Maire said.
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British financial services firms will get no access to European Union markets after Brexit unless they agree to respect EU rules, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday.
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In the run up to the ruling, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire had repeated the government position that bosses of state-controlled companies should quit if convicted of a crime.
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"We cannot accept having any exchange currencies with the same kind of power and the same kind of role as sovereign currencies," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told journalists.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in March that a 3% tax on the French revenue of large internet companies could yield 500 million euros ($563 million) per year.
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Plenary session with Bio-On CEO Marco Astorri, Hera CFO Luca Moroni, Maire Tecnimont CFO Alessandro Bernini, Terna CFO Agostino Scornajenchi, ERG Executive Chairman Alessandro Garrone, Hera CEO Stefano Venier.
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" Asked why he would not be present to listen to Sarkozy's policy speech, rival Le Maire told BFM TV: "I want to spend Valentine's Day with my wife and children.
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"A few months ago, Marine Le Pen was singing the praises of Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, saying how formidable he was," French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said.
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Le Maire, who had condemned the Dutch stake purchase as "incomprehensible" and "unfriendly", played down the dispute on Friday - even as ripples of indignation continued to be felt in Paris.
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"I want this deal to take place within the framework of the alliance between Renault and Nissan," French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said in a radio interview on Tuesday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday that he was not a candidate to replace Sylvie Goulard as French president Emmanuel Macron's choice for European Commissioner.
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In a telephone call on Friday, Finance Minister Berat Albayrak and his French counterpart Bruno Le Maire discussed U.S. sanctions against Turkey and cooperation between their countries, Albayrak's ministry said.
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"We need to have decided on this matter by January 2019," Le Maire told television broadcaster LCI, adding politicians would be judged on their actions in next May's European elections.
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Le Maire, who had condemned the Dutch stake purchase as "incomprehensible" and "unfriendly," played down the dispute on Friday - even as ripples of indignation continued to be felt in Paris.
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A three percent tax on the French revenue of large internet companies could yield 500 million euros ($568.3 million) per year, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday.
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Le Maire told Le Parisien newspaper the tax is aimed at companies with worldwide digital revenue of at least 750 million and French revenue of more than 25 million euros.
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Specifically, the appointments of rising center-right figures Bruno Le Maire as economy minister and Gerald Darmanin as budget minister are an attempt to split the Republicans (LR) in two.
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Le Maire reiterated that fierce competition from Chinese players who are twice as big as Siemens and Alstom combined, meant they had no choice but to merge their rail activities.
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"I will say what Margaret Thatcher used to say: We want our money back," Le Maire said, answering questions from lawmakers in the economic affairs committee of the French parliament.
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"If we are not able to understand the reason why the UK is asking for an extension, we cannot give a positive answer," said French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in March that a 3% tax on the French revenue of large internet companies could yield 500 million euros ($563 million) a year.
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Siemens and Alstom's rail merger was backed by heavyweight politicians like French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, and was part of a broader Franco-German effort to strengthen European ties.
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"I consider that today European banks are still too fragmented and we need banking consolidation," Le Maire said in Bucharest, where he was attending a meeting of EU finance ministers.
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"No definitive decision has been taken on the timeframe for now," Le Maire told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in the southern French city of Aix-en-Provence.
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PARIS, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The Dutch government's decision to increase its stake in Air France KLM was both "incomprehensible" and unexpected, said French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Wednesday.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said earlier on Tuesday he would fight to save jobs at a GE factory in eastern France where more than 1,000 posts are threatened.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told Bloomberg in an interview with France will propose new tax rules for such companies during a meeting of European Union officials in September.
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French and German officials confirmed Le Maire would be in Berlin on Wednesday, when he will meet acting Finance Minister Peter Altmaier, a close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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That would rile French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who wants a European champion to protect against China's CRRC moving onto the pair's turf, which would put jobs at risk.
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Netanyahu met Wednesday in Paris with French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who is pushing to maintain European trade with Iran allowed under the 2015 deal curbing Iranian nuclear activities.
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PARIS, March 14 (Reuters) - France will take Google and Apple to court over contractual terms imposed by the tech giants on startups and developers, said Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.
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PARIS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - French conservative primary contender Bruno Le Maire, seen as having come fourth in the contest, threw his weight behind former prime minister Francois Fillon on Sunday.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in March that a 3% tax on the French revenue of large internet companies could yield 500 million euros ($562.75 million) per year.
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PARIS, June 6 (Reuters) - The French government is open to tie-ups involving Renault as long as French industrial interests are protected, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday.
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PARIS, March 15 (Reuters) - France will not hesitate to take further steps to protect its citizens from the spread of the coronavirus, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday.
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The tax, Mr. Le Maire said, would most likely cover not only the companies' direct sales in France, but also revenue from online marketplaces and the resale of private data.
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