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Santander Rescues Rival From Collapse

The Spanish bank Santander has bought its rival Banco Popular for one euro.

The Spanish bank Santander has bought its rival Banco Popular for one euro. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Guy Hedgecoe reports from Spain, and we get further context from Tobias Buck, Madrid correspondent of the Financial Times.

Also in the programme, as tension escalates between Qatar and its Gulf neighbours, we hear from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Anbarasan Ethirajan about the impact it is having on foreign workers in the region.

The day before British voters go to the polls to elect a new government, in the last of our series examining the economic policies of the UK's main political parties, we hear from Daniel Hannan who is a Member of the European Parliament for the ruling Conservative party. Plus professor Tom Cannon, who is a sports business expert at the University of Liverpool Management School, tells us why the latest Forbes magazine list of top 100 earning athletes globally contains no women.

(Photo: A Santander logo. Credit: Getty Images)

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Wed 7 Jun 2017 14:32GMT

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