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...Italian designer Franco Serblin saw things differently....
...“I’m really disappointed,” he said, adding that the deal “is a missed opportunity to strengthen our clearing houses, strengthen our systems....
...“With interest rates high, we might not get as much on the sale as we would,” says Franco....
...There are always grounds for a tired metaphor about the Franco-German engine sputtering and so on. But these schisms add up to a rounding error next to the real problem, which is, I’m afraid, us....
...“I’m pleased that France is thinking about how to increase its support for Ukraine, but if I could give it a word of advice — supply more weapons,” Habeck said on Tuesday....
...Tall and handsome with amused blue eyes and an immaculate Savile row suit – “I’m a nightmare because I like things made perfectly!”...
...“If the fiddle is playing another tune, I’m not going to suddenly dance to that. I’m going to stay on course.”...
...Dwayne Lysaght, JPMorgan Chase’s co-head of M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said: “It’s hard to see any one big driver for a slew of upcoming M&A....
...But after decades devoted to boosting the design credibility of household-name brands, the offer to take on Carven, now owned by Franco-Chinese ICCF Group, felt invigorating....
...He did welcome the pact proposal, saying “I’m putting my faith in it being genuine.” Milei had previously taken aim at the governors, none of whom are from his party....
...I’m not gonna deceive you like the others.” barney.jopson@ft.com...
...Immaterial, say Merton Miller and Franco Modigliani, whose work on capital structure deemed the whole thing irrelevant....
...If not this, then I’m not sure I’m imaginative enough to think of what else it could be....
...We understood the maths behind James Ratzer’s Fantasy M&A analysis of how Patrick Drahi might buy control of BT for £12.5bn....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. First, the result of last week’s poll....
...I always think I’m a little off time. Some people say sometimes I’m too early, but I’m not sure it is. Because I have this retro thing too. The time clash, for me, is super-important.”...
...As we dodged round other parties visiting Franco Massolino and his team, I asked Browett what he felt was the biggest difference between this wine region and Bordeaux....
...“It should correspond with the increased needs that we will be facing soon, I’m afraid.”...
...“I’m not always calm — listen to my wife or children — but I decided at the very beginning to be calm....
...A few Spanish pioneers of the sport appeared as colourful anomalies of the late 1960s — towards the end-phase of the conformist Franco era....
...As far as I’m aware, no wine bars sold tedious meal kits during lockdown, knowing their pleasures can’t be summarised in absentia....
...I’m standing in for Tony Barber this week. You can reach me at ben.hall@ft.com. But first, here are the results of last week’s poll....
...The US will be the main winner if a Franco-German divide over nuclear power prevents a long-awaited reform of Europe’s electricity market being finalised, France’s energy minister has warned....
...On one side are a Franco-Portuguese couple who work at one of Belgravia’s smartest restaurants (funnily enough, they host barbecues to die for)....
...The Tunis and London gallerist Selma Feriani will open what she says will be Tunisia’s largest commercial gallery with a 2,000 sq m space in the capital’s La Goulette industrial port area....
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