La Commission Européenne ne voit rien de répréhensible dans la politique protectionniste et national-patriote du gouvernement français:
The European Commission declared Tuesday that France did not violate internal market rules by promoting a mammoth merger between two French energy companies, disagreeing with complaints by Italy that the deal was engineered to thwart a bid from an Italian rival. The commission had spent several weeks reviewing information about the French government's role in the €70 billion combination of the state-controlled Gaz de France and Suez to determine whether European Union rules on the free movement of capital had been breached.
Mais tout le monde n'est pas dupe:
At the time, the commission president, José Manuel Barroso, and McCreevy, commissioner for the EU internal market, issued a series of sharp oral warnings about economic patriotism, saying the French action broke the "spirit" of EU law.
(...) In the meantime, Neelie Kroes, the EU competition commissioner, is leading a review of the merger on antitrust grounds.
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