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Juggling with fate
It's not just about football and talent. It's also fate, fortune and confidence, which you draw closer or move away with time. Here is the difference, just as in life.Fate was with us in the...
PM negotiates with strikers
The general strike started yesterday by transports and power distribution trade unions might end today, but everything depends on the results of the negotiations that took place last night b...
Old Mutual expands in US with $1.46bn UAM purchase
Old Mutual, the London-listed fund manager, yesterday said that it is buying Boston-based fund group United Asset Management (UAM) for 1.46 billion dollars, tripling South Africa-based Old M...
Apollo battles with employees of Ciorapi Timisoara
Pantyhose producer Apollo Bucuresti plans to take over 24 percent of Ciorapi Timisoara, as part of its long-term development strategy, but employees of the Timisoara plant announced, in resp...
Vodafone pushes ahead with a substantial float
Vodafone AirTouch is expected to launch one of the biggest flotations on the Milan stock market this year, issuing up to 49 percent of Infostrada, the Italian fixed line telephone and Intern...
Suez may be close to merger with Veba and Viag
Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux, the French multi-utility, is thought to be close to a merger with the German power groups Veba and Viag, which are themselves merging to form E.on. Most details are...
Politicians play with our freedom
One of the main problems revealed by the public opinion barometer, conducted upon request of the Open Society Foundation, is the deepening rift between the political class and the citizens....
Campofrío in merger plan with Navidul
CampofrAo, Spain's leading meat processor, on Friday announced a cash-and-share plan to absorb privately-owned rival Navidul, in an operation the two companies valued at E300m (283 million...
With the West, Iliescu didn't score progress, with Russia he didn't dare
The scandal of the red line has again stirred polemics linked to the foreign policy enforced by the former administration, which political analysts consider "hesitating" in ties both with th...