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Europe’s Signa toppled in property rout

VIENNA/FRANKFURT, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Property and retail giant Signa declared insolvency on Wednesday after last-ditch attempts to secure fresh funding failed, making it the biggest casualty so far of Europe's property crash.Controlled by Austrian magnate Rene Benko, the group is an owner of New York's Chrysler Building as well as several high-profile projects and department stores across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.The multi-billion-euro group, whose tentacles reach from Germany's best-known department store, Berlin's KaDeWe, to the country's top high-street chain Galeria and a skyscraper project, is set to send ripples...
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EU keeps EastMed gas pipeline on new list of priority projects

MILAN, Nov 28 (Reuters) - The European Commission has maintained a proposed pipeline connecting the gas reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean to Greece via Cyprus and Crete on its new list of Projects of Common Interest (PCI) published on Tuesday.Projects included in the PCI list have access to a fast-track permitting process and special funding.Energy group Edison (EDNn.MI) and Greece's DEPA International Projects are the sponsors of the project through their joint venture IGI Poseidon.The joint venture has still to take a final investment decision (FID) on the pipeline, which...
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