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Air France-KLM 'favoured as Alitalia investor'

Published January 7, 2009, 12:00 pm, Financial Times via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance

Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's centre-right prime minister, was reported on Wednesday to have given the green light to the new owners of Alitalia to sell a minority stake to Air France-KLM, in spite of strenuous objections from some of his coalition partners who favour Lufthansa.

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