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Renault says it has reached a deal with Japanese partner Nissan and the French government to end an eight-month dispute over increased state influence on the carmaking alliance. Ivor Bennett reports.
Renault-Nissan was on Friday close to sealing a deal with France aimed at balancing the government's increased influence over the carmaking alliance and ending an eight-month power struggle, according to sources close to the matter. Ivor Bennett reports.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe are greeted by Renault CEO Luca de Meo as they arrive at the Renault Group site in Sandouville to tour of the industrial line of the auto maker's plant in Normandy. IMAGES
The coffin of former European Commission President Jacques Delors arrives in the courtyard of Les Invalides in Paris, during a national tribute ceremony attended by French President Emmanuel Macron. IMAGES
Wearing white laboratory coat and hair net, French President Emmanuel Macron tours the production site in Chartres, southwest of Paris, of Novo Nordisk . In a deal to be sealed officially with Macron today, Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk will invest 2.1 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in this existing facility to expand capacity for a blockbuster anti-obesity drug. Novo Nordisk is the European Union's most valuable company with market capitalisation of around $460 billion, mostly thanks to growing use of its anti-diabetes drugs as weight-loss derivatives. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron says Russian President Vladimir Putin made a terrible mistake in pulling out of the deal to protect Black Sea grain exports. "He decided to weaponize food, and I think this is a huge mistake," Macron says. SOUNDBITE