PARIS (Reuters) - The French government gave the green light on Wednesday for General Electric's (N:GE) planned 12.4 billion euro ($15.6 billion) purchase of most of Alstom's (PA:ALSO) power business.
Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron said in a statement that the government would activate the process that would see it take a stake of up to 20 percent in French engineering group Alstom from shareholder Bouygues (PA:BOUY) once the GE-Alstom deal was fully completed.
(Reporting by James Regan; Editing by Andrew Callus)