ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) privatisation

- Ireland: the Irish government has begun the privatisation of the Irish national airline AER LINGUS (turnover €883 in 2005) which will be floated on the Dublin and London stock exchanges at the end of September. The float price will be set in mid-September. According to the financial press, the airline, in which the State holds an 85.1% shareholding, with the other 14.9% held by its employees, has been valued at over one billion euro. The transaction, open to national and international...