PARIS (Reuters) – A new publicly funded multi-billion euro fund is being created to boost investment in Europe’s tech sector, to allow it to compete with U.S. and Asian rivals, France’s finance minister said on Monday. Bruno Le Maire said home-grown European tech start-ups needed far higher levels of financing if Europe is to reduce its dependence on foreign tech giants. He added that he would give details of the new fund of funds on Tuesday with his German counterpart Christian Lindner, but said it would feed 10 to 20 funds “at a minimum value of one billion euros to finance tech champions”. …