Few tears shed by French workers after Macron's Alstom dream is blocked
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BELFORT, France (Reuters) - After four decades on the production line at French trainmaker Alstom, Claude Gemino had little sympathy for Emmanuel Macron when Brussels scotched the French president's hopes of creating a European rail champion.For Gemino and many co-workers at Alstom's Belfort factory, Macron's support for the blocked merger with Germany's Siemens signalled a readiness to put shareholders ahead of jobs and protecting France's fragile manufacturing sector.But the European..