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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9477

27 July 2007
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/economy
Initial opinion in EU divided over use of specific mechanisms, such as “golden shares”, to protect strategic European sectors from emerging countries' sovereign funds

Brussels, 26/07/2007 (Agence Europe) - Discussion on the issue of the protection of vital European economic sectors and strategic companies from the sovereign funds of third countries, like China, Russia or the Gulf States, is raging. Less than a week after the fears expressed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the political, as well as economic, reasons behind third country sovereign fund investments, statements and political positions have been forthcoming from all over the EU and...

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