The remarkable birth of a national champion - Jean-Marie Chevalier on the GDF-Suez merger

With the ink barely dry on the merger between GDF and Suez, creating the world’s fourth largest gas and electricity supplier, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has set the wheels in motion for the restructuring of the nuclear power industry, based around Areva and with the same aim – to give France a world-class player in a sector undergoing something of a renaissance.