People travelling to France from countries where the COVID-19 risk is rated "orange", such as Britain and the United States, will have to be vaccinated and show a recent negative test result, European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune said on Friday.
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Think of an exclusive poker game where the minimum bet is close to $1 million. The stock-trading version, dark pools that host blockbuster trades, are pulling in major money in Europe.
Their rise has been swift.
On June 24, 2016 - the day after the Brexit vote - just 3% of trades on the London Stock Exchange s Turquoise shares platform were carried out in its dark pool via so-called block trades, mega-bets of around $800,000 or more.
Private equity firm KKR (KKR.N) has agreed to buy a minority stake in French software and computing services company Cegid in a deal that the companies said gives Cegid an enterprise value of 5.5 billion euros ($6.7 billion).
French supermarket group Casino (CASP.PA) and U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon said on Thursday they were expanding a tie-up for grocery deliveries in an online food retail market that has become increasingly competitive.
Three to four deaths have been recorded in France following a breakdown of emergency phone line services on Wednesday, but it is too soon to establish whether there is a link between those deaths and the breakdown, said Health Minister Olivier Veran.