Belgium: according to a study by the firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, 85% of major Belgian companies are confident in economic recovery and envisage mergers and acquisitions as the engine of external growth. The study was carried out during the summer of 2003 using representative samples of companies that over the last three years have been active in Belgium in these kind of operations. 60% of companies questioned confirm that their merges and acquisitions strategy experienced a slow down over...