It's not normal that a big company boss is the first to jump ship. Mr Combes led a merger of Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia that we supported, so it is neither comprehensible nor acceptable that Mr Combes has decided today to leave the company when the transaction hasn't even been completed, both morally and in terms of the proper functioning of the company.

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron

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Britain remains an important economic partner and its energy needs are still the same and this is why I still consider that a timely EDF investment decision on Hinkley Point is needed.

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron

Britain remains an important economic partner and her energy needs are still the same and it is why I still consider that a timely EDF investment decision on Hinkley Point is needed.

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron

We have a management today which no longer fulfills our objectives, which has an uncoordinated communication policy, and has fired on its own camp on several occasions, i have asked (French public investment bank and shareholder) BPI to cut the dividend several times. I think we haven't cut it enough. We're in a short-term logic whose goal is to hold up the share price, and that's not our priority.

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron

I want those factories to be built because we need this capacity, since it looks probable that it will not be Adwen, they will be built by the partner that makes the best offer in terms of industry and employment.

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron

The day this relationship unravels, migrants will no longer be in Calais, collective energy would be spent on unwinding existing links, not re-creating new ones.

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron

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