The French newspaper Le Figaro has published a report on the privatisations carried out by non-EU member States in its "Economy" supplement: - CEECS: - Poland: The new Polish government is reconsidering the sale of most of PZU's capital to EUREKO. PZU is Poland's biggest insurance company (see IE of 12 May 2001); France's CREDIT AGRICOLE is acquiring the ETL leasing company for EUR 400 million. - Czech Republic: The Czech government is postponing its decision to select France's EDF to buy CE2, the state electriccity holding company with an estimated value of over $5 billion; the government is calling for bids for 51% of the fixed telephony operator CESKI TELEKOM (27% of whose capital is held by KPN and SWISSCOM): bids have to be received by the end of March, with negotiations scheduled for May; the Czech is selling off two-thirds of the UNIPOL oil and chemicals holding company to Czech chemical company AGROFEST; - Slovakia: Germany's ALLIANZ is buying a 91% stake in the biggest Slovakian insurance company POISTOVUA for $170 million (67% of the company is currently held by the state). - Slovenia: Belgian bank KBC is the only bidder for a 34% stake in the country's leading bank NOVA LJUBJANSKA BANKA, since the other bidders were only interested in a controlling stake (see IE of 25 September); SAN PAOLO-IMI is buying the country's fourth biggest bank BANKA KOPER for EUR 250 million; - Romania: The UK's LNM is buying the state-owned specialised steel company SIDEL for $500 million; - Croatia: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM has paid EUR 500 million to increase its 35% stake in CROATIA TELEKOM to 51%. - Turkey: The Turkish state had bought up the country's eighth-largest bank DEMIR BANK, but has sold a controlling stake to the UK's HSBC for$250 million; - Azerbaijan: ENI has bought a 5% stake in the consortium led by BP that is in charge of the $2.8 bn Balkans-Mediterranean pipeline project from Azerbaijan's nationalised oil company. - Russia: The Russian government has signed an production sharing agreement with the consortium headed by EXXON for the Sakhaline I project (worth $12.5 bn).