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RBS angered by sale of ABN unit

Royal Bank of Scotland was left fuming after a last-minute maneouvre by ABN Amro threatened to dash its hopes of mounting a break-up bid for the Dutch lender, which agreed a €66bn takeover by Barclays.

Royal invites Bayrou to form alliance

Offers ‘public debate’ with centrist rival

Siemens board wants to replace Kleinfeld

Leading members seek change at the top

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New EU sanctions raise pressure on Iran

Europe eyes nuclear and missile programmes

British banks set sights on ‘Polish pound’

Poles worth over £4bn a year

BA considers bid for Iberia

Approaches private equity groups

AstraZeneca in $15.6bn US biotech deal

Shares fall on reaction to deal

Lex

Barclays/ABN Amro

On the very day that a consortium of rivals was supposed to have met ABN Amro, Barclays announced an agreed offer for the Dutch bank and it also revealed that LaSalle would be snapped up by Bank of America.

Book review

When sexual restraint is like pollution

More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics by Steven Landsburg entertains and inspires but sometimes goes too far.

Business life

A quick message for the e-mail killjoys

Lucy Kellaway

It is utter tosh to say we are bad at e-mail as it’s new: most of us have been at it for hours a day for nearly a decade, writes Lucy Kellaway

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Stop the league table obsession

Lina Saigol

In the first of a new weekly column on the issues surrounding mergers and acquisitions, Lina Saigol asks whether shareholder interests are being served.

A risk shared may be more risky, not less

Wolfgang Munchau

If banks have incentives to sell junk mortgages to borrowers who cannot conceivably repay, then something is going wrong, writes Wolfgang Münchau.

Editorial comment

France deserves a genuine contest of ideas

france / elections

The French have pushed extremists to the extremes and, after decades of muttering Non to everything, have rediscovered the power of Oui.


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