Ski slope in Paris? Not yet as promoters face growing outcry

Paris

THE only thing moving in the broad expanse of wheat, colza, corn and beet fields near Paris is a half-empty city bus trundling along a brand-new road. Overhead, the ever-present noise of planes disrupts the calm.

This is the future home, local officials hope, of EuropaCity, a 3.1 billion euro (S$4.8 billion) shopping and leisure complex being developed by grocery giant Auchan Holding SA and Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin's Dalian Wanda Group Co.

Among its planned features: a circus, a the…