Victoria Craig
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2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 31 Aug
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Oliver Barnes, one of our deals reporters who helped break that story for the FT, joins me now to talk about what happened.
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Hi, Oliver.
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So your reporting found that the companies actually wanted to announce this deal in mid-August.
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So what happened?
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Why did the talks break down?
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We should say AstraZeneca and Bristol Meyer Squibb declined to comment for your most recent story out today.
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But aside from mega deals being out of vogue in the pharma world, you also report that investors were worried about patent cliffs, which is when patents for drugs expire and then they can go generic.
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And there were also some concerns that this deal was just a way for the British company AstraZeneca to re-domicile essentially in the US, right?
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So is this something that could be revived at some point, or was the investor
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worry just too much to overcome.
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So is combining with Bristol Myers the only way to reach its aggressive revenue target, or could it shift focus to another potential target?
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Really interesting stuff.
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Oliver Barnes, our deals correspondent.
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Thanks so much for your time.
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Summer travel season might be in full swing, but at some major European airports, globetrotters are not moving all that fast.
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Data obtained by the FT shows peak wait times at two European hubs have doubled since last year.
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That's thanks to a chaotic rollout of a new electronic border system in the EU.
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It requires passengers from the UK and other non-EU countries to register with their fingerprints, photo, and personal information when they first arrive.
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The idea is to catch people overstaying visas and those wanted for crimes, but delays, technical glitches, and hardware problems have led to long lines, and some airports have temporarily turned off parts of the checks during peak times.
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This all comes as tourists are flocking to Spain for tomorrow's total solar eclipse.
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