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French and Benelux stocks - Factors to watch on June 30

PARIS, June 30 (Reuters) - Below is company-related news and leading stories from French and Benelux newspapers which could have an impact on the region's markets or individual stocks. COLRUYT The Belgian discount supermarket chain is in talks with Flemish financing group PMV to adopt Belgian offshore wind farm project Belwind, Belgian newspaper De Tijd said on Tuesday citing unnamed sources. Colruyt (Brussels: COLR.BR - news) was not immediately available to comment on the report. TOTAL Indonesia's state oil firm Pertamina wants to take stakes in two key gas projects where the foreign partners are in talks with Indonesia's government to extend existing contracts, a Pertamina official said on Tuesday. The official said these include the Mahakam block in Kalimantan, operated by a unit of France's Total and is one of Indonesia's biggest gas fields, and the Madura BD field in East Java, operated by Husky Energy Inc and China's CNOOC (0883.HK - news) . EADS (Paris: NL0000235190 - news) An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board crashed into choppy seas as it tried to land in bad weather on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros on Tuesday, officials said. SANOFI (Paris: FR0000120578 - news) -AVENTIS Sanofi-Aventis Chief Executive Chris Viehbacher said on Monday that European studies highlighting a possible link between cancer and its long-acting insulin drug Lantus for diabetes were 'of poor quality'. THALES (Paris: FR0000121329 - news) UK Defence Equipment Minister Quentin Davies said on Monday a programme to build two aircraft carriers would go ahead after the BBC reported the cost of building the warships would rise to 5 billion pounds from 3.9 billion. Thales is in the consortium involved in the project. FRANCE TELECOM (Paris: FR0000133308 - news) France Telecom sold $2.5 billion of notes in a two-part sale, said IFR, a Thomson Reuters (TRI.TO - news) service. ACKERMANS & VAN HAAREN Belgian dredging company DEME, co-owned by holding company Ackermans & van Haaren, signed contracts worth 110 million euros ($154 million) altogether to build three offshore wind parks. KBC Belgian banking and insurance group KBC said its Slovak unit, CSOB, will appeal against a fine it received with two other banks for a cartel agreement against Czech financial services firm Akcenta. ________________________________________________________ For a diary of top European results and forecasts For the Itraxx Europe CDS index see For blue-chip stocks news see For small- and mid-cap stocks news see For research on FTSEurofirst 300 companies _______________________________________________________ To view related displays double click on the following codes: Main stock markets: Dow Jones (news) ............... Wall Street report ..... Nikkei 225 (news) ............. Tokyo report............ FTSE 100............... London report........... Xetra DAX............. European stocks stories. CAC-40................. AEX (Amsterdam: news) index............. World Indices....... Bel-20 index........... Bel-20 futures...... AEX futures......... French mid-smallcap .. Dutch midcap index.. AEX options......... Luxx index......... Dutch earnings poll.. French diary... Belgian/Luxembourg diary Dutch diary... European equity diary... ______________________________________________________ Reuters survey of world bourse outlook.......... Western European IPO diary........................... European Asset Allocation......................... Reuters News at a Glance (GLCE.PK - news) : Equities............... Main currency report:............................... FTSE Eurotop 300 index............................ DJ STOXX index.................................... Eurotop 300 sector gainers/losers............. Top 25 European pct gainers..................... Top 25 European pct losers...................... European Equities speed guide.................. Pan European indices...........................