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Date Added: August 22, 2008 01:52:03 AM

The law, aimed at protecting strategic domestic industries from unwanted foreign takeovers was approved by the cabinet yesterday (20 August), despite insistence by German business associations that the move goes against EU rules on the free movement of capital.

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