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As Le Pen gambles on felling French government, her far-right protege’s star rises

By Gabriel Stargardter and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -As nationalist leader Marine Le Pen orchestrated the overthrow of France’s government on Wednesday, several thousand people lined up outside a Paris cafe for a chance to share a brief word or even a selfie with the rising star of France’s far right. Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s …

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Russia’s Yulia Navalnaya asks supporters to design ‘people’s gravestone’ for late husband

By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, asked his supporters on Thursday to design “a people’s gravestone” for him as a symbol of his political struggle against the Kremlin. Navalny, whose death in February aged 47 in a prison above the Arctic Circle deprived the …

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Economic impact of French political turmoil seems limited and contained- EU

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The economic impact of political turmoil in France on the rest of the European economy seems contained and rather limited, but the European Commission is monitoring it, a spokesman for the EU executive arm told a regular briefing on Thursday. The risk premium investors demand to hold French debt rather than German …

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Over half UK firms plan to raise prices, cut jobs after budget, BoE survey shows

LONDON (Reuters) -More than half of British employers plan to raise their prices and cut jobs in response to the new government’s first budget, according to a survey published by the Bank of England on Thursday. Almost 60% of firms expected to lower their profit margins to cope with an increase in social security contributions …

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Spain’s market regulator sees signs of manipulation in Grifols-Gotham dispute

MADRID (Reuters) -The outgoing head of Spain’s stock market regulator CNMV, Rodrigo Buenaventura, told reporters on Thursday that there were signs of possible market manipulation in the dispute between short seller Gotham City Research and pharma company Grifols. In early January, the U.S.-based Gotham, which had previously shorted Grifols shares, released a report accusing the …

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