VEOLIA: Veolia Is Offering SUEZ to Preserve Its Activities in France Within the Same Group Veolia (Paris:VIE): In case of agreement by the Board of Directors, Suez would remain unchanged in France with its scope of €5 billion in revenues and more than 25,000 employees. This solution proposed today by Veolia to the management of SUEZ will make it possible to maintain SUEZ's "Water" and "Waste" activities in France within the same single entity. This new coherent and balanced approach is therefore likely to respond to the main concerns of the stakeholders of preserving jobs and competition in France, and of giving SUEZ the necessary capacities to develop in the long term and in a reinforced manner.