In the end, there was no Engie board of directors, Friday September 25, but a simple
"meeting between the directors"
.
The difference is not just semantics.
In this informal setting, no decision was possible on the Suez case.
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This change of agenda is explained by the intervention of the government.
As
Le Figaro
revealed, the State refuses the possibility of a hostile operation between two French industrialists.
Before Engie, of which the State is the largest shareholder, decides on Veolia's offer to buy back its 29.9% of Suez, Bruno Le Maire wants to see the main players in the file: Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, the president of Engie, Philippe Varin, the president of Suez, and Antoine Frérot, the CEO of Veolia.
The first two should go to Bercy this Saturday.
Antoine Frérot, on the other hand, does not intend to accept the minister's invitation.
"He is not going to attend this meeting",
confides a person close to the file.
Bercy will therefore not get what it wanted: to bring everyone around the same table
Bercy will therefore not obtain
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