At a time when the State gets involved in everything, puts the economy under cover, closes our schools, deprives us of freedom, interferes in our lives as never before, who could have imagined that he would show himself incapable of impose its views in a financial transaction between two French multinationals?
However, this is what has just happened - let us rejoice - in the Veolia-Suez affair.
For seven months, the public authorities tried to dictate their law or play the arbitrators, without any success.
First there was Jean Castex.
The new prime minister allowed himself to bless the offensive of Veolia before changing his mind in the face of the anger of Suez and that of Bruno Le Maire anxious to enter the dance and to impose a friendly marriage rather than a hostile assault .
For weeks, the tenant of Bercy put pressure on Veolia: indirectly by demanding that Engie not cede to him the 29.9% of Suez that he held;
more directly by imposing deadlines for Suez to draw up a counter-offer, but
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