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| FT | Investors detect return to bullish ethos as Barclays picks new chief. Veteran US investment banker Staley chosen. Uncertainty over future of strategy. | |
| WSJE | AB InBev wins over SABMiller. After many attempts, world’s top brewer succeeds in getting rival’s board on its side. | |
| INYT | Report links Russian missile to jet crash. Dutch inquiry supports theory that Ukrainian rebels downed airliner | |
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| Les Echos | Industry: the irresistible race for gigantism. AB InBev, global leader in breweries, will take over SABMiller for the sum of $106 billion. The world’s biggest beer producers will control one-third of the global market | |
| Germany | ||
| Frankfurter Allgemeine | It was a Buk missile. According to the Dutch Security Council, the flight MH17 was shot down by a ground launcher produced in Russia. | |
| Sueddeutsche Zeitung | Stricter rules for Diesel engines.
The Federal Environment Minister’s reaction to the VW affair: she wants stricter emission values, independent authorities and controls as well as driving bans.
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| Italy | ||
| La Repubblica | Senate votes constitutional reform. With 179 votes in favour, 16 against and 7 abstentions, Italy’s constitutional reform has passed. “The Senate approves” roared president Grasso. | |
| Il Sole 24 Ore | Volkswagen effect: German confidence shattered.
The first effects of the Volkswagen scandal are noticeable on the German economy. Berlin revises downwards its 2015 growth forecasts.
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| Poland | ||
| Gazeta Wyborcza | Did ZUS fix its public procurement competition? The competition for the delivery of the IT system with a key significance to Poles’ pensions was carried out in a way allowing to win it by Asseco – the Public Procurement Office (UZP) said so in a confidential letter. The contract’s value reached PLN 700 million. | |
| Spain | ||
| El Pais | Podemos only plans to make a deal if it gets more votes than the PSOE.
Iglesias intends to mobilise its troops and refuses the role of hinge parties.
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| Expansion | ACS speeds up German company Hochtief’s entry.
ACS purchases 6% from Qatar for €312 million and raises its share to 66.5%.
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| UK | ||
| The Times | Cabinet rift widens as No 10 scraps Saudi deal.
Rivals accuse Gove of forcing Cameron’s hand.
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| The Guardian | Who shot down flight MH17? Inquiry points to a cover-up.
Pilot’s body was tampered with in bungled autopsy. Dutch report pieces together catastrophic blast. Rocket fired from rebel-held area of Ukraine.
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