ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) investments

- France: provisional statistics published by the French government and the Bank of France show a clear shakeout of the market in direct foreign investment in France. A fall of EUR 2.4 bn for May as opposed to EUR 3 bn in April and EUR 1.9 bn in March. There was also a reduction in investments of almost EUR 4 bn in the first five months of 2002 (EUR 14.6 bn) compared to the same period in 2001 (EUR 18.3 bn), which corresponds to a fall of 20%. At the same time, French investments abroad...