By Matthew Bigg
PARIS, April 25 (Reuters) - President Jacques Chirac announced new funding on Tuesday for six big projects to revive French industry, aimed in part at improving the fortunes of the government which withdrew an unpopular job law this month.
Chirac said the Agency for Industrial Innovation, set up last year and charged with supporting the projects, would be given 2 billion euros ($2.5 billion) for the projects.
"These big programmes will focus us ...
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