“Never waste a good crisis” is an English expression that you can safely leave to the French and Italians. In the political “no man's land
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Opinion: French-Italian cocktail of cunning for EU
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Oddo BHF Asset Management and Metropole Gestion to merge
Oddo BHF Asset Management and Métropole Gestion announce the acquisition by Oddo BHF Asset Management SAS of 100% of the share capital of Metropole Gestion
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