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The European View column was launched in 2004 to provide sharp comment and pithy judgments on the corporate, business and financial issues of the moment across the continent.
Regular contributors to European View include Paul Betts.
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Financial services not in remission yet
Tuesday gave more stark reminders that although the subprime cancer may have been checked, the chemotherapy is still ongoing and the champagne is best kept on ice
Finmeccanica outwits EADS with Tuscan tactics
The simple rustic Tuscan tactics of Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, the chief of Finmeccanica, clearly pay higher dividends than the more Machiavellian approach of the Italian company’s French and German rivals
Private equity develops a taste for French blue chips
France’s blue-chip companies seem to be increasingly featuring on the menu of international private equity firms and activist investors, let alone French ones
Korean shipbuilder floats competition dilemma
The European Commission seems to have applied its competition policy to the letter with its decision to allow South Korea’s STX shipbuilding group to take a controlling interest in Aker Yards
Champagne risks going flat as the party wanes
The picture of the champagne industry as recession proof could be misleading as figures show that a sales decline since January is increasing
Extend public holidays to give banks a break
Europe is entering its traditional May bank holiday season and also faces turmoil in financial markets. So perhaps Europe’s stressed banks and worried businesses could do with a little extra breathing space
Signs of recovery amid French textile industry gloom
The past 30 years have been a sad story for the French textiles industry. The decision this week of DMC to seek bankruptcy court protection from creditors seems to have put a final nail in the industry’s coffin
Politics keeps German privatisation on rails
After months of huffing and puffing, Germany’s ruling coalition has managed to strike a compromise on the partial privatisation of the country’s railways. As expected, it is a classic political fudge
Cool hand trumps Generali activists
Octogenarian chairman plays winning game against Algebris
Everyone expects Spanish telecom acquisition
The European telecoms sector is bracing itself for a new wave of consolidation
