The French government gave the green light on Wednesday for General Electric's planned € 12.4 billion euro purchase of most of Alstom's power business.
Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron said in a statement that the government would activate the process that would see it take a stake of up to 20 percent in French engineering group Alstom from shareholder Bouygues once the GE-Alstom deal was fully completed.
(source reuters)