Riyadh will also privatise its water desalination agency, it said.
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In 22017 his government picked 2170 public companies to privatise.
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Greece plans to privatise 6 billion euros of state assets.
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"We're going to privatise everything," says a member of his team.
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In February, the government shelved plans to privatise power supply companies.
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Citing Margaret Thatcher, he says he wants to privatise state-owned firms.
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Turkey's past attempts to privatise the lottery have so far been unsuccessful.
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Orban's government is planning to privatise state-owned Budapest Bank this year.
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Healthcare and education are among the sectors the kingdom plans to privatise.
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"I should privatise when I have no money," this investor told Reuters.
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Labour insists the Tories are planning to privatise the National Health Service.
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Ukrainian dollar-bonds soared after the country moved to privatise its biggest lender.
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Sofia wants to privatise the project without offering long-term power purchase agreements.
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One such is a call to privatise the country's air traffic control system.
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Despite the unions' scare stories, Mr Macron does not plan to privatise SNCF.
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Unlike much of the world, America has never seen a big push to privatise.
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He also clashed with the White House over plans to privatise veterans' health care.
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It is too much to imagine that it will privatise its 150,000 state firms.
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It wants to privatise the National Health Service, apart from when it does not.
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Officials last year outlined plans to privatise SWCC, which operates some 30 desalination plants.
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Communist Vietnam has slowly been pushing its state-owned enterprises to privatise to boost performance.
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Mr Lourenço, instead, plans to privatise 50-100 companies, including many in the Sonangol empire.
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The Negative Outlook reflects FIDF's plans to partially privatise BAM through a stock-exchange listing.
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The government said in December it plans to privatise it before the end of 2019.
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Khan's government has vowed to restructure the airline after previous efforts to privatise the carrier failed.
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But efforts to privatise a host of electricity distribution companies have stalled, as have other reforms.
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Orban's government has yet to give any details on how it plans to privatise Budapest Bank.
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To privatise state firms and cut import tariffs, the government will have to battle special interests.
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The government, which has until 2019 to privatise Bankia, holds around 60 percent of the lender.
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Kuwait's parliament first approved a plan to privatise Kuwait Airways in 2008 with a two-year deadline.
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But despite the comparisons with Margaret Thatcher, François Fillon is not yet planning to privatise state companies.
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Separately, Keppel said it was seeking to privatise Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Ltd for S$1.91 per share.
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The sale is part of the government's drive to privatise state-owned enterprises to improve their performances.
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Abubakar told Reuters he would also remove a costly fuel subsidy and identify government enterprises to privatise.
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The government has said it will also privatise companies to raise money and develop the private sector.
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At the insistence of European institutions the Pasok government agreed to privatise the container terminal at Piraeus.
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On August 25th the government will present a list of state-owned firms it wants to privatise.
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But healthcare shares, which could benefit from plans to restructure and privatise the healthcare sector, fared better.
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The Negative Outlook reflects the BOT's ongoing plans to partially privatise BAM through a stock-exchange listing.
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Lluka said the government could privatise the company in two years, once it has returned to profit.
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When contacted by Reuters, a spokeswoman at Pan-United said the company had no plans to privatise.
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Last week the authorities threw in the towelette and announced an "in principle" cabinet agreement to privatise it.
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Protesters clashed with security officials on Tuesday over plans to privatise Pakistan International Airlines, leaving two people dead.
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Representatives of the big carriers have already called on him to privatise the country's air-traffic-control service.
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He hopes to privatise other state firms, and to build new tourist facilities on the Red Sea coast.
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"If those big banks really want to go international, I think China has to privatise them," he said.
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Protesters clashed with security officials on Tuesday over plans to privatise the national airline, leaving two people dead.
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That may be the best reason yet why America needs to privatise its air-traffic control without delay.
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On September 20123th the treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, published a long-awaited plan to privatise Fannie and Freddie.
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In the longer run, India should privatise its state banks so that they can escape control by politicians.
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Italy owns 68% of Monte dei Paschi following a 2017 bailout and must re-privatise it next year.
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ANGOLA'S DOS SANTOS SAYS SONANGOL'S POOR PERFORMANCE MAY MEAN PRESIDENT "MIGHT HAVE NO CHOICE" BUT TO PRIVATISE IT
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Labour is precision-targeting its voters with messages about how Mr Nuttall used to want to privatise the NHS.
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In December, Aegean submitted a non-binding bid for Croatia Airlines, which the Croatian government is seeking to privatise.
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More complicated initiatives, such as his own effort to privatise public companies, will follow in due course, he says.
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He wants to slash the budget deficit, reform taxes and the unaffordable pension system, deregulate and privatise state enterprise.
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A "big bang" reform is needed to privatise the state banks and extract them from the government's tight grip.
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"We are finding it difficult (to privatise Cyta)...", Georgiades said at an event at the London School of Economics.
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I would also privatise the state's shares in telecoms and post companies and spend those billions on targeted investment.
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Detractors of a different sort accuse Mr Macron of wanting to privatise it, and to dismantle the welfare system.
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Everything you do, however benign or banal, is viewed as a covert attempt to privatise the National Health Service.
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There is now broad support for the government's ambition to privatise power stations and contract out transmission and distribution.
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The kingdom plans to privatise its international and domestic airports by 2020, GACA officials said at a news conference.
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Botswana put the airline up for sale in February, part of plans to privatise loss-making state-owned companies.
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"The state should completely privatise VW," FDP leader Christian Lindner told the Handelsblatt newspaper in remarks published on Wednesday.
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" Maliha Sumar "I think Theresa May wants to privatise the NHS, which would mean longer queues and fewer GPs.
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Last month Aegean submitted a non-binding bid for Croatia Airlines, which the Croatian government is seeking to privatise.
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The government extended last December the deadline to privatise Bankia until end-2019 in order to recoup the money.
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The government wants to erase the influence of the ex-first family, recover lost assets and privatise state firms.
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Ukraine's dollar-denominated bonds jumped by around 2107 cent after Kiev said it would privatise the country's biggest lender, PrivatBank.
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Serbia plans to privatise Komercijalna and other assets under a 30-month monitoring programme agreed with the International Monetary Fund.
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Saudi Arabia has begun to plan for an economy less dependent on oil, and announced it would partially privatise Aramco.
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But sub-Saharan Africa has many small exchanges, lots of them created in the 1990s to help privatise state enterprises.
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His chief economic adviser, a free-marketeer called Paulo Guedes, wants to reduce pension spending and privatise state-owned companies.
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On March 4, France's transport minister had said that no decisoin had yet been made on whether to privatise ADP.
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Last year a plan to privatise the airline collapsed for lack of bidders with pockets deep enough to afford it.
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China's ecommerce giant has put forward a bid to privatise Chinese departmental store chain Intime Retail Group for $2.6 billion.
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The government is moving to privatise ports, airports and other public assets: measures that, while economically sensible, are deeply unpopular.
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Italy will privatise air traffic controller Enav this year as planned, treasury top official Fabrizio Pagani told CorrierEconomia on Monday.
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Polzela is one of about 30 firms the government wants to fully or partially privatise as part of economic reforms.
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Vietnam has been trying to accelerate its drive to privatise its state-owned enterprises, many of which have low profitability.
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A corrupt and kleptocratic political class colludes with multinational predators to privatise almost everything, and ruthlessly sack Chile's natural bounties.
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THE US TREASURY plans to privatise Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which prop up most of the country's mortgage finance.
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Italy owns 68% of Monte dei Paschi di Siena following a 2017 bailout and must re-privatise it next year.
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Unior is one of at least five companies Slovenia wants to privatise next year with NLB the biggest on the list.
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The government plans to privatise a portion of its non-strategic assets, including real estate and minority stakes in some firms.
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The French government will meet on Saturday to finalise plans to privatise Aeroports de Paris, BFM TV reported on its website.
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On June 21st House Republicans unveiled a bill that would privatise air-traffic control, a policy the president announced earlier this month.
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The new government of Imran Khan has vowed to restructure the airline after the previous government's effort to privatise the carrier failed.
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Italy owns 68% of Monte dei Paschi following a 2017 bailout and must re-privatise it by the end of next year.
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The White House has also said that it is considering encouraging states to privatise assets by paying them a bonus for doing so.
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The Zimabwe government put the airline under administration last year and later invited bids from potential investors as it seeks to privatise it.
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With that system again struggling to keep pace with demand, Donald Trump thinks it is time to privatise America's air-traffic control service.
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The government will pass a law on Friday giving it until the end of 2019 to privatise Bankia, a source said on Thursday.
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The reorganisation of the SNCF is designed to prepare (though will not privatise) the railways for upcoming competition under previously approved European rules.
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Mr Shorten says the campaign is a "referendum" on Medicare, the public health-insurance scheme that he claims the government wants to privatise.
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On Monday, the U.S. buyout firm unveiled a 7383 billion yen ($1.3 billion) deal to privatise Asatsu-DK, Japan's third-largest advertising agency.
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Under the rescue package Rome, which owns 68% of the bank's capital, must re-privatise the bank by the end of next year.
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Now the government is discussing plans to "privatise" 19.5% of its shares in Rosneft, which are owned by an umbrella holding company called Rosneftegaz.
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But it will be some time before it can entirely privatise RBS (as it has almost done with Lloyds, which was also bailed out).
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In 2013, Belgrade attempted to privatise Galenika but the sole bidder, Canada's Valeant, pulled out, citing the hostility of local unions as a factor.
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The listing of Petrolimex, 26.3 percent owned by the government, is part of the Vietnam's push to privatise state-owned firms to attract investment.
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Italy also has stakes in oil major Eni and defense group Leonardo and owns the state railways which it had planned to partially privatise.
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But when he announced plans to privatise the city's strike-plagued rubbish-collection service, Pikitup, the EFF threatened to vote him out of office.
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The listing of Petrolimex, 76 percent owned by the government, is part of the Vietnam's push to privatise state-owned firms to attract investment.
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The government tried to privatise Galenika in 2013 but the sole bidder, Canada's Valeant, pulled out, citing the hostility of local unions as one factor.
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France's plans to privatise ADP will be delayed, and possibly blocked, after the Constitutional Council last week approved plans for a referendum on the issue.
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Following is a chronology of events that led to the decline of the airline and of the subsequent attempts to restructure and privatise the carrier.
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Under the country's bailout agreement struck last August, PPC must either sell a minority stake in ADMIE or fully privatise the grid by next year.
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Another immediate focus will be on reforming state giants such as Pakistan International Airlines and various power utilities, which the previous government struggled to privatise.
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Hinai said Oman Air would not be ready for privatisation until its restructuring is completed and that there are no plans to privatise Oman Airports.
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Despite Labour's decent electoral performance, nationalisation is not everywhere on the march; on June 5th Donald Trump made public his desire to privatise air-traffic control.
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Moreover, ADP's business – and by extension its value to French taxpayers – is partly a function of the decision by other sovereign nations to privatise their airports.
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Disappointing his own business constituency, Mr Modi dodged calls to privatise some banks, industries and utilities, instead forcing healthy state-owned firms to swallow sick ones.
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Kazakhstan plans to privatise NC KMG within the next few years, but it cannot be listed on a major stock exchange alongside its main upstream subsidiary.
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The system is raising concerns among airlines that other countries looking to privatise airports, such as Japan, India and Vietnam, could use Australia as a model.
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The government also aims to privatise the telecommunications sector and overhaul the costly and crumbling electricity sector, one of the biggest strains on Lebanon's depleted finances.
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In the wake of the massive correction in oil prices, governments across the Middle East are looking to privatise their businesses to shore up state budgets.
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HSH's owners, the German states of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg, have to privatise the bank under European state-aid rules by the end of February 2018.
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UBI is widely regarded as the best candidate to take on Monte dei Paschi, which the state must re-privatise by the end of next year.
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Royal Air Maroc is likely waiting for profits to improve before it considers privatisation, he added, and "utility companies are not making enough money to privatise".
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The bank's owners, who bailed out HSH in the financial crisis, now have two years to privatise the shipping lender and have already commenced the process.
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The government has until the end of 2019 to privatise the bank in an effort to recoup money provided as part of its rescue in 2012.
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The government tried to privatise the drugmaker in 2013 but the sole bidder, Canada's Valeant, later pulled out, citing the hostility of local unions as one factor.
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Mr Koizumi also cultivated young candidates, dubbed "assassins", to supplant opponents within the LDP blocking his attempt to trim public spending and privatise Japan's giant post office.
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The government has until the end of 2019 to privatise the bank in an effort to recoup money provided as part of its state rescue in 2012.
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He hopes the hurricane will spur the fiscal control board, which governs the territory's finances, to push forward a decade-old proposal to privatise the power industry.
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The violence came as hundreds of airline employees held the latest of a months-long series of protests against the plans to privatise Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).
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"The best option is to privatise so that private sector buyers inject capital to upgrade the plant and machinery, buy raw material and so on," he said.
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This month, Pakistan shelved plans to privatise power supply companies, and officials said Islamabad told the IMF it would not meet deadlines to sell PIA or PSM.
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Mr Shorten also ran a scare campaign, claiming the government wanted to privatise Australia's public health insurance scheme (Mr Turnbull labelled this an "extraordinary act of dishonesty").
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Dennis Kucinich, the mayor in 1977-79, who much later ran for president, refused to privatise the electric utility and, in 1978, took the city into bankruptcy.
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BAKU, May 17 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan does not plan to privatise the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) this year, Samir Sharifov, Azerbaijan's finance minister, told Reuters on Friday.
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The CGT said it was protesting against plans by France to privatise French energy group Engie, and against the government's plans for reforms in the French energy sector.
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In a surprise move, the Brazilian government said it would privatise Eletrobras, Brazil's biggest power utility, in what could be the country's most lucrative privatisation since the 1990s.
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The two main opposition parties, which both want to liberalise the economy and privatise the land, were eventually allowed to keep 161 seats in the 547-strong parliament.
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China did not privatise home ownership until the 1990s, and prices were still far below their true value in the early 2000s, laying the groundwork for a surge.
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Outsourcing companies such as Interserve or Serco are also expected to get less business from a Labour government than a conservative administration seeking to further privatise the economy.
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IBA has earlier planned to be ready for privatisation last year but the Azeri finance ministry said in May it did not plan to privatise IBA this year.
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The Egyptian government owns a large number of companies in various industries as well as several banks, but its efforts to privatise state holdings have proven politically sensitive.
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The French government has yet to make a decision on whether to privatise Paris airport operator ADP, which is a "strategic asset", the transport minister said on Sunday.
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Lower oil prices would make it harder to part-privatise Saudi Aramco, the state oil company, undermining a key reform plank of Muhammad bin Salman, the deputy crown prince.
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Details in Monday's plan showed the Energy Ministry aimed to transfer all its power generation to "strategic partners" by 2020 and Riyadh will also privatise its water desalination agency.
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Under Greece's bailout agreement struck in 2015, PPC, which is 51 percent state-owned, must either sell its stake in ADMIE or fully privatise the grid by next year.
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The sale of up to 4.5 percent of Egypt's top cigarette maker Eastern Company SAE last month marked the start of a plan to partially privatise five state companies.
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OSLO, June 6 (Reuters) - Norwegian power producer Statkraft is interested in bidding for eight of the hydropower concessions that France looks set to privatise, the company said on Wednesday.
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It plans to privatise much or all of the loss-making national carrier, Air India, and has also pushed through an ambitious scheme to encourage the use of smaller airports.
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Mr Guedes wants to deregulate, simplify the enterprise-crushing tax code, privatise state-owned firms and slash the enormous budget deficit, which was an estimated 7% of GDP last year.
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They also undermine Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's promise to the International Monetary Fund to privatise PSM by March, in return for a $238 billion national bailout loan agreed in 21.
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The French Senate rejected a proposal on Tuesday to privatise airport operator ADP in a temporary setback for government plans to raise around 10 billion euros ($11.41 billion) for innovation.
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HSH's owners - the German states of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg jointly hold 85 percent - have to privatise the bank under European state-aid rules by the end of February 2018.
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GABORONE, May 29 (Reuters) - Botswana's largest tourism company, Wilderness Safaris , plans to make a bid for Air Botswana, the country's loss-making national airline which the government wants to privatise.
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Under criticism from some investors for being slow to privatise assets, the government had said in August it would fully divest from the country's two biggest brewers, Sabeco and Habeco.
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With a 900-strong workforce, Aluminij is a major employer in the southern Mostar region and has been undergoing restructuring after failed efforts by the regional government to privatise it.
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As the strongest among second-tier lenders, UBI had also been tipped as a potential buyer for Monte dei Paschi di Siena , which the state must re-privatise next year.
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GABORONE, March 9 (Reuters) - At least 17 companies have expressed an interest in operating Air Botswana as the government embarks on its latest drive to privatise loss-making state companies.
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As well as pursuing peace, its new leader has lifted a state of emergency, welcomed back exiled dissidents, freed thousands of political prisoners and vowed to privatise lumbering state-owned enterprises.
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Ignoring his authoritarian leanings, the financial markets cheered his impending victory in the hope that he will slash spending, especially on pensions, simplify taxes, privatise state firms and eliminate red tape.
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The stockmarket rose sharply on expectations that his chief economic adviser, Paulo Guedes, will reform the pension system, privatise state firms and deregulate, though Mr Bolsonaro until recently opposed such things.
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Efforts to privatise it, along with a host of other government-owned enterprises, have been delayed for more than a decade due to red tape and the state of its books.
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Under the country's bailout agreement struck last August, PPC, which is 51 percent state-owned, must either sell a minority stake in ADMIE or fully privatise the grid by next year.
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France made proposals in February that could meet long-standing demands by the European Commission for Paris to privatise its hydropower concessions, which are mostly operated by state-controlled utility EDF.
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Foreign investors have welcomed his pledges to float the naira, overhaul the central bank, privatise the state oil company and create a $25 billion fund to support private sector infrastructure investment.
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Mexico is opening up its oil monopoly; Saudi Arabia plans to; and other developing countries, from Brazil to India to China, may privatise state-controlled firms to raise cash and improve efficiency.
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PARIS, Nov 16 (Reuters) - French plans to privatise Aeroports de Paris have attracted strong interest from "several consortiums" including some led by industrial investors, state holdings chief Martin Vial said on Friday.
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Labour unions say the reforms are a thinly-disguised attempt by the governing conservatives to privatise pension funds, and accuse them of reneging on a promise to rescind all bailout-mandated cuts.
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Atiku, 72, had said he would aim to double the size of the economy to $900 billion by 2025, privatise the state oil company and expand the role of the private sector.
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Moreover, the government's plans to modernise the economy and partly privatise Saudi Aramco, the state oil company, depend to some extent on higher oil prices, says Bhushan Bahree of IHS Markit, a consultancy.
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Airports are one of several sectors Saudi Arabia is seeking to privatise as it aims to raise around $200 billion in order to diversify its economy in an era of lower oil prices.
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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Russian Economy Ministry has received proposals on how to privatise a 19.5 percent stake in Russian state oil company Rosneft, the minister Alexei Ulyukayev told reporters on Friday.
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"CHINA must privatise," insists Chen Zhiwu of Yale University, who serves on the board of PetroChina, the publicly traded arm of the China National Petroleum Corporation, one of the country's biggest state firms.
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It also plans to privatise, including through public listings, some of the largest state-owned companies, and the Eurobond regulations could hint at how Tashkent is going to allocate initial public offering mandates.
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AMSTERDAM, Feb 18 (Reuters) - ASR, the insurance company the Dutch government hopes to privatise this year, reported on Thursday a 25 percent rise in 2015 operating profit to 13 million euros ($580 million).
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Fitch believes the authorities' plans to partially privatise HCSBK will not significantly affect the state's support propensity, given the intention to retain a controlling stake in the bank and maintain its policy role.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's upper house of parliament on Friday rejected a bill to privatise the cash-strapped national airline, another delay for the country's stalled privatisation agenda under the terms of an IMF bailout.
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ROME, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Italy will press ahead with plans to privatise state-controlled companies but the government will maintain a guiding role in their objective, Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said on Wednesday.
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"The senior staff have also been paid," The previous government's attempt to privatise the national carrier stalled in 2016 after staff protests disrupted operations and parliament passed a law that effectively made privatisation impossible.
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Confusion has been created about an airport privatisation process after some local media reported that the government intended to privatise 27 of them by the middle of 2018, a target analysts said was unrealistic.
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ZURICH, May 17 (Reuters) - Switzerland is preparing to part-privatise Axpo, the country's largest electricity producer, by allowing private investors to buy up to 49% of the company, documents published by local government show.
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PARIS, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The French Senate rejected a proposal on Tuesday to privatise airport operator ADP in a temporary setback for government plans to raise around 10 billion euros ($11.41 billion) for innovation.
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He confirmed government plans to privatise oil producers Rosneft and Bashneft, as well as shipping company Sovcomflot and bank VTB, saying the government aimed to receive up to 1 trillion roubles this year from privatisation.
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ATHENS, May 16 (Reuters) - Greece on Wednesday presented an alternative proposal to privatise its gas utility DEPA to its international lenders, hoping to reach an agreement later this week, its energy minister said on Wednesday.
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KAF's Long-Term IDRs could be downgraded if the authorities' plan to privatise the company, the implementation of which is highly uncertain at present, leads to a weakening of KAF's connection with the Kazakh government.
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It paid 217 million euros ($239 million) to increase its stake in the country's second-biggest lender to privatise it under a 13-month non-financial and advisory deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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ROME/MILAN, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Italy plans to privatise national rail services by selling a stake in the railways' holding company, the economy minister said on Tuesday, hinting the sale could take place in 2017.
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The Fairfax family lost control of its newspaper empire 28 years ago, after a bid by Warwick Fairfax, a descendant of its founder, to privatise the company saddled it with debt and sent it into receivership.
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Since Muhammad bin Salman (pictured), now the crown prince, revealed his intention to part-privatise the kingdom's crown jewel to this newspaper in early 2016, it has always been touch-and-go whether he would succeed.
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The unions, notably the Confédération Générale du Travail, fear that the reform will also lead to higher ticket prices and a weaker public service, and accuse the government of a secret plan to privatise the railways.
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The proceeds exceeded the government's target of raising at least $122 million from the sale, which is part of a plan to privatise hundreds of state-owned enterprises to boost their performances and ease budget pressure.
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To meet the conditions for the loans, without which Greece would again default in July, the government introduced pension and income tax reforms, as well as measures to privatise state assets and deal with bad loans.
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The plan aims to curb dependence on oil by boosting non-oil businesses, and to part-privatise Saudi Aramco in order to set up a huge sovereign-wealth fund that will invest at home and abroad.
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Baker also said Qatar Airways was not interested "at the moment" in buying stakes in Air India and Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), which the government of India and government of Pakistan are separately trying to privatise.
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In December Italy won an extension to the end of January of a deadline for the state to submit an outline of how it plans to re-privatise Monte dei Paschi by the end of 2021.
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NICOSIA, May 10 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan will privatise its flag carrier Air Astana, state oil and gas company KazMunaiGas and state nuclear firm Kazatomprom by 2019 at the latest, the country's Finance Bakhyt Sultanov said on Wednesday.
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WARSAW, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Poland wants state-run postal group Poczta Polska to expand in consumer finance and insurance to revive revenues, but has no plans to privatise it, a deputy minister overseeing the company said.
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"The government doesn't have a vision for the airline ... Even if it does privatise it, it will continue its interference without a corporate plan for the airline," said Will Horton, an analyst at Australian aviation consultancy CAPA.
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Sadoun said the government has two routes to take with the airline; either to privatise it or to follow the example of the UAE and Qatar by establishing Kuwait as a travel hub between East and West.
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The stake sale is part of the Vietnamese government's plan to privatise hundreds of state-owned enterprises to boost their performance, relax a tight state budget and reform an economy that is highly reliant on foreign investments.
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MOSCOW, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Russia's agriculture ministry believes that it would be premature to privatise the state's stake in grain trader United Grain Company, the RBC daily reported on Friday, citing an unnamed source at the ministry.
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They replace Yaresko, praised by Washington for her handling of Ukraine's debt crisis, and Aivaras Abromavicius, who as economy minister spearheaded a drive to privatise graft-ridden state firms, but quit in protest over corruption in February.
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PPC fully owns ADMIE and under the terms of Greece's international bailout the utility, which is 51 percent-owned by the state, must either sell its stake in the grid or fully privatise it by next year.
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The consortium did not offer any solution for Galenika's debt to commercial banks, the economy ministry said in a statement, adding that it would try to find another way to privatise the company as soon as possible.
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Since 2010, a nationwide project to privatise government land and legalise housing has let more than 1,500 households in Suto Orizari register for property titles and access loans to extend and upgrade, according to Habitat for Humanity Macedonia.
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KARACHI, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Pakistani security personnel on Tuesday clashed with marchers protesting against government plans to privatise the ailing national airline, in a skirmish that a hospital official said killed at least two protesters and injured eight.
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HSH's owners - the German states of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg jointly hold 85 percent - have to privatise the bank under European state-aid rules by the end of February 2018, and have hired Citigroup to organise the process.
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"Things can be reformed, new sources of financing found ... but you can't talk about the public service like that, eliminate 500,000 jobs, privatise social welfare, end reimbursement of healthcare costs for a whole list of illnesses," said Valls.
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In Abu Dhabi, the index edged up 2643 percent after ADNOC's chief executive described in a Reuters interview a major shake-up plan to privatise its services businesses, venture into oil trading and expand partnerships with strategic investors.
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Following a 2017 bailout, Monte dei Paschi is 68% owned by the Treasury, which must find a buyer for the lender in order to re-privatise it by the end of 2021 as agreed with the European Commission.
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On Thursday, France's constitutional council approved plans for a referendum that could delay or block the government's move to privatise ADP, but Le Maire said he saw the referendum as an "opportunity" for a better presentation of the privatisation.
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It is three years since one local banker, Fernando Ulrich, called Portugal "a Chinese aircraft-carrier in Europe"—back then, Chinese buyers were already snapping up stakes in "strategic" local companies as quickly as the government could privatise them.
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Nariman Mannapbekov, the Asian Development Bank's country manager for Azerbaijan, said that "according to my information, there is no plan to privatise IBA this year" and that the chance IBA will be privatised within two years "is very small".
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SYDNEY, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison said on Monday he will not privatise a corporate registry held by the country's markets watchdog, bowing to opponents who argued the move would reduce transparency for millions of privately held companies.
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"We are trying to privatise some equity of some of the companies we have ... It is not because of a shortage of finances, but because we want to modernise the system itself," he said in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
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The move comes as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government is looking to privatise Budapest Bank, the country's ninth-largest bank by assets, with Economy Minister Mihaly Varga having said the bank could be sold in the first half of 2017.
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HSH's owners - the northern German states of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg jointly hold 85 percent - have to privatise the bank by the end of February 2018 and have mandated Citi to organise the process, due to start in early 2017.
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The European Commission said in October that HSH's owners - the German states of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg jointly hold 85 percent - would have two years to privatise the lender, pending the final EU decision in the first half of 2016.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has shelved plans to privatise its power supply companies and will miss deadlines to sell other loss-making state firms, reneging on promises it made to the IMF in return for a $6.7 billion bailout three years ago.
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HSH's owners - the German states of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg jointly hold 85 percent - have to privatise the bank under European state-aid rules by the end of February 2018 and have been trying to offload parts of its business.
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Belgrade wants to sell Galenika as part of an effort to privatise, shut or trim unprofitable state firms under a 1.2 billion euro ($1.4 billion) deal with the International Monetary Fund, but the drugmaker's debts have so far put off investors.
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PARIS, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The French Senate on Wednesday voted in favour of allowing the state to lower its minority stake in gas and power group Engie, despite rejecting a proposal to privatise airport operator ADP earlier in the week.
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ACWA would fund any acquisitions mostly through bank finance, although bonds could also be a component, but SEC had not yet approached his firm about selling its assets and Saudi Arabia was unlikely to privatise everything at once, he said.
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ATHENS, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Workers at Hellenic Petroleum on Monday physically prevented suitors eyeing a majority stake in Greece's biggest oil refiner from entering two of its sites in protest at plans to privatise the utility, a union spokesman said.
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The government has been trying to sell Galenika as part of efforts to privatise, shut or slim down unprofitable state firms under its 1.2 billion euro ($13 bln) loan deal with the International Monetary Fund, but the drugmaker's heavy debts have discouraged investors.
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In 2004, when there were protests against plans to privatise EDF, unions cut power supplies to dozens of targeted locations, including parts of some cities, Paris train stations, the headquarters of political parties and the employers organisation and the residences of conservative politicians.
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The ex-vice president, who is from the northeastern state of Adamawa, in May told Reuters he would privatise parts of the state oil company and allow the naira currency to float to attract foreign investment if elected as head of state.
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RIYADH, April 24 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia plans to privatise by 2020 the national soccer league, flour mills at the General Silos and Flour Mills Organisation and some projects at the Saudi Saline Water Conversion Corp, according to a document published on Tuesday.
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IndiGo owner InterGlobe Aviation Ltd slid as much as 5.7 percent after falling 2.2 percent on Thursday after the company expressed interest in buying a stake in Air India after the government approved plans to privatise the debt-laden state-owned carrier.
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Despite massive disposals in recent years, Monte dei Paschi still needs to cut its problem loans to attract potential buyers, making it easier for the government to re-privatise it by the end of 2021 as agreed at the time of its bailout.
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Exchanges are vying to win part of the flotation as it will bring a major boost to their trading volumes, and will be likely to help them win listings from other Gulf states which are looking to part-privatise their commodity assets.
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The latest bad loan clean-up at Monte dei Paschi is seen as key for the Treasury to be able to find a buyer for the lender and re-privatise it by the end of 2021 as agreed with the EU Commission.
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PARIS, May 10 (Reuters) - French Fiance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday that he still "fundamentally" believed in plans to privatise the country's main airports group ADP , as he sought to play down a possible referendum that could block or delay the process.
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The government has been trying to sell Galenika as part of efforts to privatise, shut or slim down unprofitable state firms under its 1.2 billion euro ($13 billion) loan deal with the International Monetary Fund, but the generic drugmaker' s heavy debts have discouraged investors.
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For all his faults, and he has many, there is a chance that Mr Bolsonaro will provide Brazil with the right leadership and make badly needed reforms to the pension and tax systems, privatise poorly run state companies and reduce the overall size of government.
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Blackstone has also offered to purchase the remainder of the shares in the market at the same price for a maximum of HK$3.7 billion, in compliance with exchange rules, though it does not intend to privatise the company, according to the same filing.
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ISLAMABAD, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Pakistan has shelved plans to privatise its power supply companies and will miss deadlines to sell other loss-making state firms, reneging on promises Islamabad had made to the IMF in return for a $6.7 billion bailout three years ago.
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LONDON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Angolan state oil company Sonangol will begin in April to sell its stakes in several private firms, chair Sebastiao Gaspar Martin said, as part of a government bid to privatise key state assets including parts of Sonangol itself by 2022.
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A reversal of the plan to partially privatise BAM and signs of a long-term commitment by the state to maintain BAM's shareholdings and regulatory advantages would lead to a revision of the Outlook to Stable and a possible re-assessment of the National Long-Term Rating.
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But the government must re-privatise Monte dei Paschi by the end of next year and the Treasury has been discussing a plan with the EU Commission to help cut the bank's problem debts below 5% of total lending to make it more attractive to potential merger partners.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES A reversal of plans to partially privatise BAM and signs of a long-term commitment by the state to maintain BAM's shareholdings and regulatory advantages would lead to a revision of the Outlook to Stable and a possible re-assessment of BAM's National Long-Term Rating.
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But it has been slower to act on calls to write off loans and privatise state-run banks, which experts say are needed to revive corporate and bank balance sheets but will not sit well with bank labour unions or the taxpayers that will have to foot the bill.
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The clearest evidence of this is that Britain is already half way to sacking off the European Union, the polls suggest that right wingers have carte blanche to further privatise our schools, hospitals, air and organs, and the fact that people have seriously been discussing having a great big war with Spain.
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Thus seeds of resentment were sown that have been nurtured perhaps too enthusiastically by the leadership of the BMA, whose rallies resonate to unfounded claims that Mr Hunt wants to privatise the NHS and to juvenile abuse of a health secretary who—the doctors neglect to acknowledge—has a manifesto commitment to fulfil.
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This morning he extensively rehearsed his grumbles about the EU ("from its lack of democratic accountability to the institutional pressure to deregulate or privatise public services") and made it clear that he will not be sharing a platform with David Cameron (who may struggle to endorse what the Labour leader called the "socialist case" for staying put).
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