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Closing the borders to business. (...) France and others are trying to stiffen the barriers to economic integration on "strategic" grounds. The latest example of this is the attempt by Dominique de Villepin, the French prime minister, to prevent an Italian bid for Suez by merging it with another French utility
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FREE-SPENDING visitors are sometimes shocked by Paris's famously surly waiters. France has usually greeted foreign firms that have tried to acquire French rivals with the same lack of grace. The latest affront to Europe's free-marketeers came on Saturday February 25th as France sought to undermine a potential bid for Suez, a French electric and water utility, by Enel, an Italian rival. To avert a hostile bid from the Italian firm, the French government announced that it would seek to broker a merger between Suez and state-owned Gaz de France, creating a group with annual sales of €64 billion. Italian politicians were outraged.
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