The European Commission gave a muted response to calls from Paris asking it to look into US company Hewlett Packard's decision to cut around 6,000 jobs in Europe, the brunt of which will be felt in France.
"I received a formal request from the French government to analyse this issue", said commission president Jose Manuel Barroso on Wednesday (21 September).
He went on to say that the commission can only give a limited response to the situation.
It is not within the Commissi...
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