Merkel opposes opening up EADS shareholder pact
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New shareholders should not be admitted to European plane maker EADS's  shareholder pact, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a newspaper interview when asked about allowing Russian investors to buy in.
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The German government rejected a magazine report on Saturday that France was blocking a German consortium from taking over a stake in aerospace group EADS  from core shareholder DaimlerChrysler .
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Germany does not expect to take a direct stake in aerospace group EADS  via state bank KfW or other federal or state institutions, a senior government official told Reuters on Thursday.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel sought on Friday to persuade Poland to compromise over a new treaty to reform the European Union after Warsaw dug in its heels to demand a change in the voting system.
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The German government is nearing a deal for German banks to buy a stake in EADS as DaimlerChrysler reduces its holding in the company.
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Airbus manufacturer EADS denied reports in French daily Le Monde Saturday that it had published misleading information now being investigated by French financial markets regulator AMF.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected  on Tuesday a call from one of her ministers that the country&#39;s  utility firms shut down their seven oldest nuclear reactors by  the end of 2009.
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Germany's ruling coalition of Social Democrats and Greens on Oct. 28 voted against lifting the European Union arms embargo against China, in direct opposition to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
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Poland appears unwilling to accept a  German-led deal to revive the EU&#39;s stalled constitution and may  prefer to wait until after Germany&#39;s presidency of the bloc to  decide the charter&#39;s future, Austria&#39;s chancellor said.
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If the German government were to cancel its defence contracts with European aerospace giant EADS, it would hurt German jobs, according to a stark warning from the German co-chairman of EADS.
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Influential advisory firm Institutional  Shareholder Services has recommended that shareholders vote  against billionaire Carl Icahn&#39;s sweetened $3 billion buyout  offer for Lear Corp.
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Talks on finding investors to safeguard  German influence in European aerospace firm EADS  could  push into early 2007, German government spokesman Thomas Steg  said on Monday.
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A consortium of investors put together by the German government to buy a bloc of EADS shares put up for sale by DaimlerChrysler has reportedly hit difficulties, notably because of French resistance to the plan.
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The British government has signaled its opposition to the creation of a European defence industry giant by the merger of the European aerospace group EADS and the French-British defence electronics group Thales, the Observer reported Sunday.
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Germany could take a direct stake in the aerospace group EADS in 2010, replacing a consortium of investors and German states, a press report said Wednesday, quoting an economy ministry official.
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Germany's biggest airline Lufthansa on Friday denied Spanish press reports that it was preparing a takeover bid for Spanish national carrier Iberia.
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German flag carrier Lufthansa declined to comment on Thursday on a newspaper report that it was interested in buying a 20-percent stake in British airline BMI currently held by Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS).