08/08/2003 (Agence Europe) - In an interview in Le Monde, 8 August, the French Minister of the Economy and Finance, Francis Mer, asserted that the French State's involvement in Alstom (see EUROPE 6 August p 2) was not being hidden and that it involved aid for restructuring. He said that he was convince that they would find a common ground for reaching an understanding with Brussels and that it was not forbidden for a country to participate in the restructuring of healthy companies that had...