A French court has rejected a demand by construction company Vinci for nearly 1.6 billion euros from the government for the abandonment of a controversial project to build an airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, in the west of France. It nonetheless opened the door to a "termination indemnity" for the group.
"The State did not commit a fault by abandoning, for reasons of general interest, the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport project," the court's statement reads.
