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Overwhelming the border, on July 30 and 31, more than 80,000 people from Morocco entered Ceuta—a Spanish city of 83,000 inhabitants. Moroccan and Sub-Saharan nationals, adults and minors, men and women… In a display of helplessness that reflects the Government’s difficulties in en...

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Banco Santander has announced that it has completed its share buyback program after reaching the maximum scheduled investment of €5.03 billion. In total, the bank acquired 462,683,139 treasury shares, equivalent to approximately 3.08% of its share capital. The program, regularly r...

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The Drive TN consortium, led by Ferrovial, has been awarded the development of the express lanes on the I-24 Southeast highway in the Nashville metropolitan area (Tennessee). The project involves a total investment of $9.2 billion (around €7.88 billion). The project will cover a 4...

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The European Commission has approved the creation of a joint venture between ACS, Telefónica, Banco Santander, and SEPI Digital to bid for one of the seven European artificial intelligence (AI) gigafactories that the EU Executive plans to build. The Spanish project, backed by Port...

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Olli Rehn, Governor of the Bank of Finland, has advocated a fresh push to develop European “safe and liquid assets” to support the euro internationally and lower borrowing costs. In his lecture “Back to school: Passing Europe’s triple test” delivered during the OMFIF Nordic SSA fo...