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Murdoch’s foes plan proposals to restrict Fox in Sky transaction

  Bloomberg Citizens who are campaigning against Rupert Murdoch’s plan to gain full control of Europe’s dominant pay-TV company are seeking to hamper the 11.7 billion-pound ($14.6 billion) deal through the UK Parliament. Hacked Off, a media accountability advocacy group formed during the phone-hacking scandal that thwarted Murdoch’s first takeover attempt for Sky Plc in 2011, is preparing to propose ...

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Denmark is open to sell stakes in state assets

  Bloomberg Denmark’s government, which owns stakes in 27 companies including Dong Energy A/S and SAS AB, is prepared to sell off everything that doesn’t affect its ability to protect critical infrastructure. Though there are currently no concrete plans to move ahead with a specific divestment, the administration is “clearly open” to selling, Finance Minister Kristian Jensen said in an ...

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UK clean energy sector shrinks after govt subsidy cuts

  Bloomberg The UK’s renewable and low-carbon energy sector shrank by 8.7 percent last year, partly because of cuts to subsidies. The sector, from wind farms to electric vehicles, turned over $52.5bn in 2015, provisional figures by Office for National Statistics showed. That’s lower than the 46.2 billion pound recorded in 2014. Acquisitions of capital assets fell by 39 percent ...

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