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...Chief executive Mike Fries said even with recent indications that the EU is more favourable to mergers, such deals are “not going to happen” because it is “a dream that doesn’t reflect the reality of operating...
...The Franco-Flemish composer Johannes Ockeghem’s hypnotic 15th-century Requiem, with its cascade-like sheets of sound, influenced the 20th-century Ligeti’s multi-voiced compositions, which owe a good deal...
...Araújo will be replaced by Carlos Alberto Franco França. Additional reporting by Carolina Pulice and Bryan Harris...
...The so-called frugal four of Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden and Austria are not cheering the Franco-German plan and oppose proposals to issue EU debt to provide grants for Covid-19-stricken countries....
...Michael Masri has been hired by Orrick, a law firm, as a tax partner in New York. He joins from Norton Rose Fulbright. Orrick also named 17 new partners on Thursday....
...Email: michael.peel@ft.com Twitter: @Mikepeeljourno Email: mehreen.khan@ft.com Twitter: @mehreenkhn...
...Ms Merkel defended the Franco-German effort to bring peace to Ukraine through the 2015 Minsk Agreement, despite admitting its failure to even achieve a lasting ceasefire....
...The buildings are arrayed on a broad avenue called viale Enzo Ferrari, with small streets named after F1 champions (via Mike Hawthorn, via Phil Hill) branching off....
...France’s prime minister has sought to dampen concerns about the future of Toulouse airport after the disappearance of Chinese businessman Mike Poon, a key figure in a consortium set to invest more than €300m...
...But the stock still trades at a big discount. Imps’ ownership of Logista is a byproduct of buying Franco-Spanish fags business Altadis for £11bn in 2008....
...Father and son Alan and Michael Stillman have followed suit with Smith & Wollensky across the US, while their younger British counterparts, Will Beckett and Huw Gott, are creating a similar atmosphere in...
...While hailing Hirst’s “A Thousand Years” (the flies, maggots and rotting cow’s head) as “absolutely brilliant”, Michael Landy is the YBA Nelson most admires, for his willingness to “try something out that...
...The next husbands were Michael Wilding (married in 1952) and impresario Mike Todd (1957), for whom Taylor converted to Judaism....
...Franco Zeffirelli: Complete Works, edited by Caterina Napoleone, Thames & Hudson RRP£95 A coffee table book to die for – and possibly from, if it were to fall on you from a great height....
...Before he became a rottweiler, Frost (Michael Sheen, superb) was a media popinjay, propelled largely by other talents in his coursing of fame and as facile and famous a social animal as Nixon was gauche,...
...US domestic politics should not be allowed to interfere with the Pentagon’s defence procurement programme, says Ralph Crosby, the American head of EADS, the Franco-German aerospace and defence group....
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