26/05/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 20 March, the European Commission decided to open an indepth investigation into the financing of retirement pensions of state employees working for France Télécom, which were introduced in 1997 at the time of the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector. The investigation is in response to a complaint from a competing telecommunications operator alleging that the reduction in France Télécom's retirement costs and the exemption from social...