Archives for May 2011
May 4th, 2011
Never before has the Spanish Official State Bulletin (BOE) devoted as many pages as in the past three years, to the publishing of insolvency statements. As if it were an obituary column, the BOE were receiving dozens of notifications daily from companies facing bankruptcy. The number of companies being declared ...
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May 3rd, 2011
Brussels is finding it hard to believe that the muscular actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is actually aspiring to continue his political career as President of the EU, thus occupying a place alongside Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy in the formal conclaves of the EU-27. News that the actor of Austrian origin, has ...
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May 2nd, 2011
An anonymous philanthropist has donated a painting by Pablo Picasso to the University of Sydney on the condition that it is sold and the proceeds be used to fund scientific research, Australian media reported today. The painting is entitled "Jeune fille endormie", and was painted in France in 1935. It ...
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