The European Commission said on Friday it had asked the French government to explain its role in brokering the merger between Gaz de France and Suez, in a further sign of Brussels' growing concern over protectionism.
A spokesman for Charlie McCreevy, the European Union internal market commissioner, told journalists in a news briefing: "The letter raises a number of questions, mainly in order to establish some factual information about the sequence of events surrounding this merger. It was brought to the attention of the Commissioner that the Suez/Gaz de France merger was only announced after the disruption of negotiations between the company Veolia and the Italian company Enel."
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