Playing for high stakes

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Series Details 26/06/97, Volume 3, Number 25
Publication Date 26/06/1997
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Date: 26/06/1997

All is not roses between fellow Socialists Karel van Miert and Edith Cresson. Relations between the Belgian Competition Commissioner and the French Research Commissioner have been severely strained by Cresson's insistence that the Commission should back an 18-million-ecu subsidy for semiconductor company SGS Thomson, an Italian business in which French firms have a large stake. If the French Commissioner carries on like this for an Italo-French business, what will she be like when tricky Franco-French cases emerge, insiders are wondering.

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