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FRANKFURT (Reuters) -A planned 3-billion-euro ($3.3 billion) site Thyssenkrupp is building in Duisburg to make carbon-neutral steel could be stranded unless Germany ensures there’s sufficient green hydrogen to supply it, the conglomerate’s CEO said. “With this project we are not only pushing the boundaries of what is technologically feasible. We are also currently operating at …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Sabadell’s CEO said on Wednesday he did not expect Spain’s competition regulator to come down too hard on BBVA’s hostile takeover bid when it announces the outcome of its review into the proposed deal. Cesar Gonzalez-Bueno said that the regulator, which will give its view as soon as the end of this …

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PRATO, Italy (Reuters) – Italian prosecutors said on Wednesday they had opened an investigation into energy company Eni and seven of its employees following an explosion at a fuel depot near Florence in December that killed five people. The prosecutors in the Tuscan city of Prato said in a statement they suspected manslaughter and other …

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By Paul Arnold, Maggie Fick ZURICH (Reuters) -Swiss drugmaker Roche has abandoned global diverse workforce targets and compatriot Novartis is ending its use of diverse panels for U.S. hiring, the latest companies acting to avoid penalties from recent U.S. executive orders Among its measures, Roche said its Chief Diversity Offices in the U.S. and at …

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