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French government to privatise Charles de Gaulle airport
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CHARLES DE GAULLE airport, Europe's second largest after Heathrow,
has been quietly added to the French government's list of asset sales
intended to raise pounds 6bn this year.
Preliminary talks have opened with banks on the privatisation.
However, stock market conditions and union opposition have hit the
government's plans, announced last year, for the full or partial sale
of 13 groups.
Finance ministry experts are now looking at the sale of Charles de
Gaulle and other airports within the state-controlled Aeroports de
Paris (ADP) group to raise at least pounds 3bn.
A new law would be needed ...
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