France gambles on privatisation drive with lottery stake sale
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PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - The French government has launched its biggest wave of privatisations in more than a decade, kicking off the process with the sale of the majority of its stake in the national lottery monopoly.President Emmanuel Macron's pro-business government wants to raise money to invest in technology that could give France an economic edge in the future.But opposition figures on both the left and right are worried that the former investment banker's privatisation push is akin to..