By Inti Landauro
PARIS--French state-controlled power utility Electricite de France SA (EDF.FR) said Tuesday it agreed to sell 49% of a Slovak electricity distributor to a Czech company for 400 million euros ($516 million).
EDF, which had bought the stake in Stredoslovenska Energetika a.s., the second-largest electricity distribution and supply operator in Slovakia, for EUR160 million in 2002, agreed to sell it to the Czech Republic's Energeticky a...