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Brexit: A Bitter Pill?

What Brexit means for the UK's pharmaceuticals industry, one of the country's most profitable, and what international start-ups in the Netherlands expect from the Dutch polls.

It's set to be a big week for the European Union with the UK possibly triggering Article 50 this week, the official process that will lead to its departure from the EU, and the Dutch general elections, which many see as a litmus test for a global rise in populist, nativist politics. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Matthew Price reports from Worthing on the south coast of England, a town that's highly dependent on pharmaceutical exports, and Manuela Saragosa speaks to start-up entrepreneurs Nitzan Merguei and ​Mehrdad Seirafi in the Dutch city of Maastricht, about how they see their future ahead of a Dutch general election in which populist anti-EU, anti-immigration parties like that of Geert Wilders are expected to do well. Plus, Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times says there's there's only so long you can go about promoting yourself on past achievements.

(Picture: St Joseph 81mg asprin tablets; Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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