Anglo Irish tape complicates Dublin debt talks
Senior executives had laughed off concerns by regulators and EU governments that they were abusing Dublin’s bank guarantee, audio recordings show European Companies News…
Charterhouse considers IPO for Elior
UK buyout group weighs up flotation for French caterer as offers fall short of €4bn asking price European Companies News…
The men behind the Anglo Irish scandal
Profiles of Sean Fitzpatrick, David Drumm, Willie McAteer, Pat Whelan and John Bowe – the men behind the banking scandal that rocked Ireland European Companies News…
Deal reached on EU car emissions
Rules will require entire range of models sold by each carmaker to have average emissions of no more than 95 grammes of carbon dioxide per kilometre European Companies News…
Trafigura’s Russian oil ambitions
The oil and metals trading house, which until now has been focused on metals in the region, tries to break into territory dominated by rivals European Companies News…
Ireland should lift lid on bank crisis
Anglo Irish appears to have gone on bluffing a nation to which it had doled out so much of the finance needed to pump up property prices European Companies News…
Regulators likely to watch Kabel deal
Kabel Deutschland has the biggest coverage of Germany’s well-developed cable TV market, and so the Vodafone acquisition is likely to be closely watched by competition authorities. European Companies News…
Vodafone / Kabel Deutschland
The UK telecom group and German cable company have agreed an offer, but there the deal is not sealed just yet European Companies News…
Kabel Deutschland set to accept Vodafone approach
Still an opportunity for Liberty to tender a new offer, said one person close to the deal, although adding that Vodafone was now in a strong position European Companies News…
