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Deutsche Bank to cut business ties with Trump and his company as the Capitol riot fallout escalates

Deutsche Bank AG and Signature Bank, two of Donald Trump’s favored lenders, are pulling away from the billionaire president in the wake of last week’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol. The German lender has decided not to conduct any further business with Trump and his company, said two people with knowledge of the matter, […]

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Former Airbus chief joins board of flying taxi startup

Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Thomas Enders, a former chief executive of aviation giant Airbus, is joining the board of a fledgling flying taxi company. Enders’s appointment is a coup for Lilium, a Munich-based company that has pioneered the use […]

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Bayer strikes deal to aid CureVac in its COVID-19 vaccine rollout

The German biopharma firm CureVac has announced a tie-up with the country’s biggest pharmaceutical beast, Bayer, for the development and supply of CureVac’s candidate COVID-19 vaccine. The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. Bayer’s stock jumped more than 2% on the news Thursday morning. The collaboration and services agreement should aid […]

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Merkel pushes to speed up vaccine roll-out, as German lockdown tightens

Chancellor Angela Merkel called an emergency meeting to speed up Germany’s Covid-19 vaccine program in an effort to quell tensions within her government over claims the rollout has been too slow. A day after the German leader tightened and extended lockdown measures, Merkel will gather top cabinet ministers on Wednesday to discuss how to accelerate […]

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Merkel pushes to speed up vaccine rollout, as German lockdown tightens

Chancellor Angela Merkel called an emergency meeting to speed up Germany’s Covid-19 vaccine program in an effort to quell tensions within her government over claims the rollout has been too slow. A day after the German leader tightened and extended lockdown measures, Merkel will gather top cabinet ministers on Wednesday to discuss how to accelerate […]

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France’s vaunted health system fails its greatest test in generations: the COVID-19 vaccine rollout

For decades, France has boasted how its first-rate public health system—for which the French pay heavily in taxes—amply cares for its 67 million people, from birth to the end of life. And Louis Pasteur, the Frenchman who invented the world’s first vaccine in the 1880s, is nationally revered, with streets and a renowned research institute […]