PARIS (Reuters) – French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Monday backed an intervention by the country’s foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in luxury goods giant LVMH’s
“It was the right decision,” Le Maire told France 2 television, saying that Le Drian was working to protect French interests in his intervention on the LVMH-Tiffany deal.
Last week, LVMH said its board had received a letter from the French foreign ministry asking it to delay the acquisition of Tiffany to beyond Jan. 6, 2021, given the threat of additional U.S. tariffs against French products.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
