European leaders host Musk, chase Tesla investment
Timilehin Adejumobi
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Billionaire Elon Musk is set to meet French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday as part of a European trip, with national leaders jostling for investment from his electric car firm Tesla.
The maverick tech titan, who also owns SpaceX and Twitter, met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday, and she later tweeted that they had a “fruitful meeting” discussing “innovation and opportunities”.
Macron confirmed during a visit to France’s biggest technology trade fair VivaTech earlier this week that he would meet the businessman to “tout the attractiveness of France and Europe”.
Musk will also visit VivaTech later, appearing before an audience of thousands for what is billed as an hour-long “conversation” with the event’s French founder Maurice Levy.
Musk and Macron held talks in May and afterwards he said he was considering big investments in France.
The country’s technology minister Jean-Noel Barrot fuelled speculation earlier this week by telling US broadcaster CNBC that “a lot of effort and energy” had been expended to secure a Tesla factory for France.
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