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...HOLD: NWF (NWF) The company is allocating £8.5mn in cash to fit out a large new food warehouse, writes Michael Fahy....
...Michael Youngworth, convertibles strategist at Bank of America, said the market was currently dominated by larger companies in “old economy” sectors....
...Schulz?” The thesis of this bite-size tribute (directed by Michael Bonfiglio) — cartoonist as blueprint for his own character — is not complex but neither is it unfounded....
...Do Barenboim and his intendant Matthias Schulz not know that it takes skill and experience to stage an opera? Or do they just not care? ★★☆☆☆ To December 14, staatsoper-berlin.de...
...Martin Schulz, the former European Parliament president who remains influential in the pan-European socialist group, called Mrs Von der Leyen Berlin’s “weakest” minister and said Mr Timmermans relegation...
...Michael Roth, a member of the SPD executive committee and Germany’s minister of Europe, said in a Twitter message directed at the party chief: “The way you were treated in public was disgraceful....
...However, many Social Democrats are upset about Mr Schulz’s volte-face. “There are discussions about credibility,” said Michael Groschek, head of the SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia....
...Sigmar Gabriel sent a text to the now deposed Mr Schulz, didn’t get a reply, and then apologised in person (Die Zeit)....
...“SPD leader Martin Schulz now needs to show that the SPD is a reliable coalition partner....
...Email: michael.peel@ft.com Twitter: @Mikepeeljourno...
...Michael Kretschmer, the CDU prime minister-designate of Saxony, said Mr Schulz’s way of doing politics might have worked in Brussels, but “in Germany it is really dangerous”....
...Email: michael.peel@ft.com Twitter: @mikepeeljourno Sign up to receive the free Brussels Briefing in your inbox every morning....
...Michael Fuchs, deputy head of the chancellor’s CDU bloc in the Bundestag, said it would make more sense to toughen emissions standards and “have an open competition between different technologies to work...
...michael.peel@ft.com @mikepeeljourno Brexitations REACH out and touch . . ....
...Der Spiegel sums up why KoKo could prove the perfect compromise for Schulz’s torn SPD....
...Email: michael.acton@ft.com Twitter: @macton93 Chart du jour: the UK’s immigration plunge Brexit is biting....
...“He has only been leader since March and should absolutely continue to lead the party now,” said Michael Czogalla, a rank-and-file SPD member who was attending the party’s election night gathering at its...
...Meanwhile, Martin Schulz, author of the feted “Europe chapter” of the coalition government agreement, is out of the picture....
...Schulz comes clean In the international edition of “what’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done?”...
...There is some less good news for Mr Schulz: one-third of young people do not know who he is....
...In Germany, Mr Macron is cultivating Mr Schulz and former Green MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit....
...The FT’s Mehul Srivastava and Michael Peel report. Sanctions volley The EU has hit top Venezuelan officials and North Korean diplomats in Asia and Africa with travel bans and asset freezes....
...Michael Grosse-Brömer, a CDU deputy chief whip, said: “Of course, this is a really great start for us in election year.”...
...FAZ looks at the choppy waters ahead for centre-left leader Martin Schulz, who must navigate both the special party conference but also a “member survey” of any final coalition deal....
...Serious inheritance tax reform is not on Mr Schulz’s agenda....
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