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Sport Alliance actively seeks acquisition opportunities – CFO
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Barcelona-based journalist for Mergermarket. Views my own. You can see my free weekly blog on thinking critically about the news at sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/ If you want to start a debate with me, please ask first!
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Sport Alliance actively seeks acquisition opportunities – CFO
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Vox is threatening to leave five regional governments in Spain where it governs with the PP in protest at plans to distribute teenage migrants from Africa throughout the country
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DACH dealmakers bet on surge in deals from September – Trendspotter
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Building robust AI systems that always outperform people might be harder than thought, say researchers who studied Go-playing bots
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Clearly! I think the words xenophobic, nativist and economically illiterate all apply.
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Agreed!
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DEAG in advanced talks with acquisition targets, expects deals in 2024 – CEO
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Wellbeing: Ticket sizes increase in European mental health services M&A— Dealspeak EMEA
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Mass tourism protesters squirt water at Barcelona tourists
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Bombshell exit poll puts RN in third place in France
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Keir Starmer has a wonderful opportunity to change the conversation around Brexit in the four to five years ahead. I discuss one approach, based on a public enquiry into Russian interference, that would create massive optionality when it comes to the UK rejoining the EU. Check it out after the jump!
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Labour’s landslide victory is a personal triumph for Keir Starmer that once seemed impossible
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Voters in the UK and abroad have either not received their ballots or have been left with too little time to return them [Article from Monday]
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Documaster sponsor Summa to launch exit process earliest in 4Q24, weighs acquisitions – partner
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Trump’s Plan for NATO Is Emerging
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If you know any degrowthers, please encourage them to read this article
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Spain’s Supreme Court refuses amnesty for Carles Puigdemont
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Spain's proposal to reform media law seen as threat to press freedom
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Alive and kicking: EMEA M&A makes speedy recovery — Dealspeak EMEA
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French Elections: Far-Right Rassemblement National Party Wins First Round Per Exit Polls
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The Democrats who could replace Biden if he steps aside
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There is one person who understands Catalan but doesn't speak it in Barcelona for every two people who prefer the minority language to Spanish. This is a huge opportunity for people who want to promote the Catalan language. To see why, please check out the weekly essay on my personal blog.
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South African energy sector liberalisation sets scene for consolidation – Conference Insight
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Bain distributes Kantar teasers ahead of post-summer launch – sources
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Joe Biden should save his legacy by ending his candidacy
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Honking lemurs that always stay on beat hint at origin of music
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Catalan separatist party ERC (Socialist ally in Madrid + kingmaker in Barcelona) is furious at a deal to strengthen Spain's judicial independence. Speculation is rising that we could see a snap general election in the autumn alongside repeat CAT vote (in Spanish)
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Spain's two main parties, ruling Socialists and opposition PP, finally agree to renovate the governing body of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) after five years of mutual recriminations (in Spanish)
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Trump’s resilience in polls brings European defence deals into focus — Dealspeak EMEA
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What can 21st century platform economics teach us about the failures of Marxism? Please check out the weekly essay on my personal blog for my answer
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In-house project management for deals - podcast
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European M&A sentiment wobbles with USD 75bn of lapsed deals and USD 8bn DS Smith/IP at risk – The Morning Flash
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European ADC segment in focus as investors, strategics search for ‘magic bullet’ cancer treatments — Dealspeak EMEA
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Macron’s gamble on snap elections unlikely to freeze timid French M&A recovery for now
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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez is mulling giving Catalonia a "singular" tax regime in order to facilitate a Socialist-led government of the region (In Spanish)
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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez announces plans to toughen laws against "pseudo-media" (ie, online newspapers that have uncovered a number of corruption scancals involving the ruling Socialist Party) (In Spanish)
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Grifters will tend to massively destroy value for their victims, while pretending to create value. This week's essay on my personal blog explores this theme. Please check it out after the jump!
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Mademoiselle Desserts and IK Partners work with BNP Paribas on sale – sources
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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez gives opposition PP 15 days to agree to judicial reform; and threatens to reform judiciary without consensus if there is no deal (In Spanish)
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Rockets fired from Lebanon after Israel kills Hezbollah commander
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Spanish prosecutors argue that amnesty for Catalan separatist leaders cannot be applied for cases of embezzlement (In Spanish)
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Spain's Court of Auditors is taking the country's recently passed amnesty for Catalan separatist politicians to the Court of Justice of the EU to see if forgiving politicians for embezzlement is compatible with European law (In Spanish)
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Hunter Biden, the son of the president, found guilty on federal gun charges after a trial that laid bare his addiction struggles
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A judge has opened a formal investigation into David Sánchez (sometimes known as David Azagra), the brother of Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez, for embezzlement, influence trafficking and fraud. He is involved in Socialist politics in Badajoz (In Spanish)
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Catalan separatist parties unite to make Josep Rull speaker of regional parliament. He was elected with votes of two deputies who fled Spain, despite a court ruling that their votes shouldn't count (In Spanish)
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Spanish deputy PM Yolanda Díaz has resigned as leader of Sumar (a hard-left party and the junior member of the ruling coalition), although she will keep her seat and her Cabinet role
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New UK government could open floodgates to infra M&A if details appeal — Dealspeak EMEA
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Europe’s conservatives are ecstatic
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Spain has a public polling agency, called the CIS. It has been politicised under the ruling Socialists. The CIS said the Socialists would win the European elections with 21-24 seats. The party came second with 20. The CIS said the PP would come second with 18-20. It won with 22.
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Israeli centrist politician Benny Gantz resigns from Netanyahu's war cabinet
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