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The plan, announced last year and backed by the government and public broadcaster France Télévisions, aimed to create a broadcasting powerhouse able to compete against US streaming giants such as Netflix. 

French carmaker Renault, partly state-owned, could reduce its stake in its Japanese counterpart Nissan in an effort to save the strained commercial alliance between the two marques, said France's economy and finance minister Bruno Le Maire, adding that French plans for a merger between the two, resisted by Nissan, could be abandoned.

The heads of the two Paris-region Top 14 clubs last week announced their merger into one super-club for this autumn, but in face of strong protests by players and supporters the deal has been abandoned.

Stade Français and Racing 92, winners, respectively, of the Top 14 in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons, said they will merge into one club this autumn, pooling their financial ressources in order to build a single team of 'reference'. 

French culture and electronics retail chain FNAC and electronic appliance stores Darty merger prompted by competition from e-commerce.

EADS and BAE Systems on call off their planned $45 billion merger, which would have created the world's largest aviation and defence group.

French government moves to give it and Germany a blocking minority stake in mooted EADS-BAE tie-up has UK concerned the deal could be scuppered.