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We have got that story plus Aurora Harpy Alice, but first, remember, like Rockefeller said, was it Ford?

Competition is a sin.

McCrone puts French banks into play with playing to transform Europe. Now, James, I did

see this story. Rather innocuous headline. McCrone puts French banks in play with plan to

transform Europe. Okay. Finance Yahoo. Tell me more. President Emmanuel Macron said he would be

open to seeing a major French bank being taken over by a European Union

rival in order to spur the deeper financial integration he sees as critical for the bloc's future

prosperity. Dealing as Europeans means you need consolidation as Europeans, Macron said in an interview

with Bloomberg on the sidelines of the Choose France Investment Summit in Versailles

near Paris, we now have to open this box and deliver a single March good approach, which is much more efficient.

As Europe comes to terms with Russia's war in Ukraine and the steady deterioration of the global trading system,

Macron's been trying to persuade his EU partners to embrace what he

sees as a transformative program of reforms to turn the EU into a more united and powerful

economic force. Only by getting smarter about protecting interests, cutting back on regulation

inside the single market, and unlocking the bloc's financial power, Macron argues, does the

EU have a chance of going

toe to toe with China and the U.S. with 15 billion euros of new foreign investment announced

on Monday's conference underlining the sea change from the days of his predecessor, Francois Olawn,

declared that finance was the country's enemy. McCrone is trying to demonstrate that there is more to his vision than rhetoric.

We clearly bridged a gap with the others and are now frontrunners in Europe, he said,

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