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...Macron’s advisers are promising Sorbonne II will be more than a victory lap, and include specific proposals for where the EU should go next....
...In eastern Europe, a Bulgarian party led by former king Simeon II and named after himself stormed to electoral victory in 2001....
...Good morning and welcome to Europe Express. Sad news from the UK, where Queen Elizabeth II died yesterday after a reign of 70 years....
...Its deal with Allego comes just weeks after Sunlight Financial, a business that helps finance residential solar systems, became a public company following its merger with Spartan II....
...Good morning and welcome to Europe Express....
...Among them is Mark van Baal, founder of Dutch shareholder group Follow This, which pushed Royal Dutch Shell to make a more ambitious commitment to reduce its carbon emissions....
...More than 55,000 people have signed a petition calling on Belgian authorities to remove statues of King Leopold II, who ran Congo as a brutal rubber plantation state in which as many as 10m people died....
...When asked about the US protests, Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte said the Netherlands also has a “systemic problem” with racism....
...(FT) Leopold has fallenAfter being set on fire, a statue of former Belgian King Leopold II in Antwerp has been removed to be restored and put in a museum in the city....
...The cleaners who came for King Leopold II in Brussels this July knew what to do....
...Most are at least partially state-owned, but others, including the Hungarian subsidiary of Robert Bosch LLC, are not....
...Racism row The Dutch anti-immigration, Eurosceptic leader Thierry Baudet is under fire for a social media post where he accused four “Moroccan” men of harassing Dutch women on a train....
...The Dutch commissioner, a bête noire to some in central and eastern Europe, was engaged in some furious one-to-one diplomacy to win over his sceptics....
...The FT takes a deep dive into the effects of the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II....
...The SRD II recommended “we have a code so that people would better understand what we are doing and how we do it”....
...Royal Dutch Shell (market cap $130bn and falling) is everywhere this morning having cut its dividend for the first time since 1943....
...At the same time, he became ubiquitous in corporate America, serving on blue-chip boards for the likes of American Express, Xerox, Revlon and Dow Jones, just to name a few of his commercial engagements....
...Once that's done, Bulgaria will be fit to put in a formal application to join ERM II around July 2019....
...Süddeutsche Zeitung’s Robert Rossmann calls GroKo II’s personnel “second rate” and “political novices”....
...That was apparent in a €10.1bn deal, including debt, clinched this week between Carlyle and Dutch paint maker Akzo Nobel for the latter’s speciality chemicals business....
...Macron’s Caribbean visit French president Emmanuel Macron will face down his first major day of industrial action over his labour market reforms by heading off to the hurricane battered French-Dutch islands...
...However, leaders of six US companies — some of which are complainants in the European case — and the News Media Alliance, a trade association, wrote to Ms Vestager on Tuesday to express support for Europe...
...Labour drop Wilders boycott Dutch Labour party have lifted their boycott of Geert Wilders’ policies....
...Last year Dutch insurer Aegon sold £9bn worth of UK annuities to Rothesay Life and Legal & General....
...Shortly before Kraft Heinz ditched its $143bn pursuit of Unilever on Sunday, Downing Street desperately thinking of ways to shield the Anglo-Dutch group from the US cost-cutters....
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