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Bruno Le Maire visiting an ACC plant in France — Bruno Le Maire (right) is pictured during the inauguration of an Automotive Cells Company’s battery gigafactory in northern France on Tuesday. (BLOOMBERG)

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May 31, 2023 08:10 AM

France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire joined automaker calls for the European Union to walk back upcoming anti-pollution regulation for car emissions that would significantly add to the cost of making combustion-engine cars.

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