IMPATIENCE The latest olive branch from Paris resembles an earlier compromise offer. Weeks before Renault's April 30 shareholder meeting, Macron volunteered to limit the increase in government voting rights if Ghosn dropped his proposed opt-out from the Florange law. But the Renault board pressed ahead with the resolution, and France deployed 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) of public funds to raise its stake and successfully block it. In recent days, however, Macron has also backed away from an earlier push for a Renault-Nissan merger on French terms. A full tie-up "is not on the agenda", the minister said on Tuesday, a week after sources told Reuters he had urged Ghosn for months to set up a merger working group. Last week's Renault board meeting created an ad-hoc subcommittee to oversee continuing negotiations between the French government and Nissan, but the Japanese carmaker publicly voiced impatience with the process.