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...has become one of Ukraine’s most potent weapons in its fight against Russia, and the company behind it has since developed into MBDA, a European missile powerhouse able to compete with America’s Lockheed Martin...
...“These spats are greeted with jubilation in Moscow and disquiet by our EU partners,” said Éric André Martin of the French Institute for International Relations....
...The proposed merger between TF1 and M6 has also been seen as a test of the influence of billionaire Martin Bouygues, whose family controls the construction-to-telecoms conglomerate....
President’s ambitions to hit 5% rate dented by rise in joblessness among younger workers and women
Paris is moving slower than other EU capitals in curbing its budget deficit and public debt
...Additional reporting by Martin Arnold in Frankfurt and Sam Fleming in Brussels...
...Here’s the FT’s Martin Arnold....
...Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator Top tip for making the most of your day: My top tip is that early birds get the best seats....
...Digital operator, Martin Varret at Imagin Paris. Stylist’s assistants, Aylin Bayhan, Aniello Luca Migliaro and Tommaso Palamin. Production, Jason Le Berre at Home Agency....
...Here’s our Paris bureau chief Leila Abboud....
...She is currently a visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins art school. But above all she is, I quickly realise when we meet in a London restaurant, a believer....
...to raise interest rates by half a percentage point, the European Central Bank is now being urged by former executives to do less because of turmoil in financial markets after a US bank failure, writes Martin...
ECB increases rates by 0.5 percentage points
...Godard influenced many filmmakers including Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino....
...“It’s a total frivolous novelty, and nothing more than that,” acknowledges JJ Martin, the founder of print-based label La DoubleJ, who embraces the look when she hosts parties at her Milan home....
...Additional reporting by Leila Abboud...
...“We are excited to expand our engagement with the founders, the Guillemot family,” said Tencent president Martin Lau, adding that Tencent planned to “bring some of Ubisoft’s most well-known AAA franchises...
...There’s Better, a Leeds-based thriller with Leila Farzad as a compelling detective inspector falling into corruption to help her son, on iPlayer....
Eurozone inflation falls more than expected to 10%
...In a media landscape dominated by outlets owned by billionaire industrialists, such as Martin Bouygues’ TF1 and Vincent Bolloré’s Vivendi, having “strong and credible” French public broadcasters was particularly...
...Additional reporting by Leila Abboud and Guy Chazan...
...If it is approved later this year, the merger of Martin Bouygues’ broadcaster TF1 and its smaller rival M6, owned by Germany’s Bertelsmann, could pave the way for a wave of mergers across the continent....
...Euro bull: Martin Sandbu argues that monetary independence is overrated and that the European single currency is becoming more attractive each day....
...Data and graphics by Steve Bernard, Oli Elliott and Martin Stabe...
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