General History 1998

Last update: March 11th, 1999.

25^th January 1999:
As part of its long-term global partnership with the Walt Disney Company, McDonald's today opens a themed restaurant at Disneyland Paris, located in the Disney Village area.

27^th January 1999:
The French newspaper "Le Parisien" breaks the story that the second Disney theme park at Marne-la-Vallee has finally been approved for construction. Broadly based on Florida's Disney-MGM Studios, the new park will be a celebration of the cinema. The targeted opening date is, as had been widely speculated over recent weeks, 12th April 2002 - Disneyland Paris's tenth anniversary. French finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn indicated that final plans would be completed in few days and the overall cost of the new park will be 4,000 million Francs.

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