French President Francois Hollande will not allow shale gas exploration during his presidency, he said on national television Sunday. France currently has a ban on shale gas exploration using hydraulic fracturing, the only current ...
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Reportedly EU ministers and European Commission call on ArcelorMittal to postpone planned capacity cuts until they confirm proposals to revive Europe’s steel sector, Industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani said on Tuesday. ...
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The European Commission (EC) has held a roundtable meeting today, February 12, attended by representatives from 13 steel producing member states and the European Parliament, regarding the EC's plan to deliver an action plan by June to ...
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French carmaker Renault has delivered its first full-electric car ZOE to the French Minister of Industrial Recovery, Arnaud Montebourg in the home market. The company is to deliver a small number of vehicles by the end of 2012 and start ...
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France is considering nationalizing an aluminium plant owned by Anglo Australian mining group Rio Tinto. The potential move is being studied by officials working for Arnaud Montebourg, the Industrial Recovery minister, just 10 days after ...
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AFP reported that Libya's sovereign wealth fund denied it wants to invest in the troubled Petroplus oil refinery in northwestern France. The Libyan Investment Authority denies reports on certain media and circulating on the Internet that ...
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Reuters reported that Mr Arnaud Montebourg Industry Minister of France has told that there is an industrialist willing to invest EUR 400 million to renovate ArcelorMittal's Florange steelworks in northeast France. Raising pressure on ...
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Bloomberg reported that French president Mr Francois Hollande presented options to ArcelorMittal CEO Mr LN Mittal to save jobs at Florange in north eastern France, not taking its nationalization off the table. Mr Hollande, who met with Mr ...
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Reportedly, French Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg on Monday said that ArcelorMittal was not keeping promises to French government over the plant issue in Florange industry. Suffered from the profit losses over years, ...
Tags: the profit losses, the world's largest steelmaker, blast furnaces
BBC News reported that Mr Arnaud Montebourg French minister for industrial recovery, accusing the steelmaker of lying and disrespecting the country, has said that ArcelorMittal is no longer welcome in France. Mr Montebourg told French ...
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