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Alain Mikli

On January 23, 2013, Alain Mikli International was bought by Italian eyewear giant Luxottica for around 90 million euros.

Ateneo de Madrid

What the regional council allowed to auction includes 14 works by Antonio López, Eusebio Sempere, Josep Guinovart, José Moreno Villa, Alberto Corazón and Carmen Laffon, that earned the Ateneo 140 000 euros.

Banco Privado Português

On 11 February 2013, João Rendeiro, Fezas Vital and Paul Guichard, former members of the board committee were charged by the Public Ministry with fraud, in a matter of a Collective investment scheme that damaged hundreds of clients for an estimated 41 million euros.

BAWAG P.S.K.

In October 2005, BAWAG approved a loan of 425 million euros to Phillip R. Bennett, then CEO of the commodities broker, Refco, collateralized against Bennett's own holdings in the firm.

Beyond My Control

The video was shot for two days at Studio Sets in Stains (where the video of "Plus grandir" was already shot in 1985) and cost about only 45,000 euros (the budget was limited because the film Giorgino was in preparation).

Brandenburger

Poetin, a Brandenburger mare, was a successful dressage horse and sold for a record amount at auction: 2.5 million Euros.

Carl Moll

On June 21, 2013, the online auction house Auctionata in Berlin sold Moll's Villa in Vienna for 240,000 Euros.

Chernomorets Arena

The whole complex will cost 1 billion euros, according by the owner of Chernomorets and Petrol Holding AD Mitko Sabev.

Deloitte Football Money League

The “Big Five” had total revenue of 8.4 billion euros, a 5 percent increase over 2008-09, according to Deloitte.

Denis Sassou Nguesso

He has been cited in recent years during French criminal inquiries into hundreds of millions of euros of illicit payments by Elf Aquitaine, the former French state-owned oil group.

Denmark–Kazakhstan relations

Baltic Beverages Holding bought in 2002, 76% interest in the Kazakh brewery Irbis, and 45 million euros has been invested.

Đorđe Lazić

At the end of 2008, B92's sports section announced that Lazić was moving to Ukrainian Premier League club Metalurh Donetsk with a transfer fee of 500,000 euros.

Eurobonds

Hans-Werner Sinn from the Munich based Ifo Institute for Economic Research believes the cost for German tax payers to be between 33 and 47 billion Euros per year.

François Grin

In this document, Grin indicates that the choice of Esperanto as a bridge language for Europe would lead to an annual saving of 25 billion euros.

Global Blue

Equistone Partners sold the business in May 2012, for 1 billion euros to the technology private equity firm Silver Lake, with Swiss private equity house Partners Group taking a minority stake.

Greek government formation, May 2012

In response, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said that "we have to say to the Greek people right now that the situation is serious, that no European Union country will be able to release even a portion of the 130 billion euros for the Greeks, if there is no functioning government that respects the rules and manages the disbursed money."

HSBC France

In 2010 the French government's Autorité de la concurrence (the department in charge of regulating competition) fined eleven French banks, including HSBC France, the sum of 384,900,000 Euros for colluding to charge unjustified fees on check processing, especially for extra fees charged during the transition from paper check transfer to "Exchanges Check-Image" electronic transfer.

Île-de-France Clusters

To support creativity and competitiveness of the industrial sector which represents a global market of 300 billion euros, Cap Digital carries out actions following six main areas: the development of R&D and innovation, the development of shared platforms, the development of services for business development, human resources planning and adaptation skills training, the monitoring and foresight and influence of international competitiveness.

İlhan Parlak

On June 14 Ilhan was transferred to Ankaraspor along with Özgür Çek and 4.2 milyon Euros in return for Özer Hurmacı.

International status and usage of the euro

The Swedish town Höganäs, does, since 1 January 2009, generally allow shop payments in euros alongside of the Swedish krona.

Jyrki Katainen

For example, he highlighted Google’s investment of about 800 million Euros in Hamina, Russian data center Yandex’s investment in Mäntsälä and Microsoft’s plans for investing about 250 million in Finland.

Kurir

The issue was his plush villa in the elite Belgrade suburb of Dedinje that governor said he bought for 350,000 euros.

Lamentation of Christ

The last time was a Sotheby's auction in 2008, where it was purchased by an anonymous buyer for 1.46 million euros.

Marcelo Estigarribia

On 28 August 2011, Estigarribia moved to Juventus F.C. on a season loan for a 0.5 million euro fee, with an option of making the transfer permanent for 5 million euros at the end of the season, from a proxy club Deportivo Maldonado.

Mitchell Scholarship

In 2010, the Irish Parliament passed legislation whereby it will match any contributions, up to 20 million euros, to an endowment for the Scholarship program.

MS Jan Heweliusz

In 2005, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg ruled that the official investigation of the sinking was not impartial and granted 4600 euros in damages each to eleven relatives of the victims.

Nabil Sayadi

He is accused that he transferred 200,000 Euros to Al-Qaeda financier Mohammed Zouaydi, which caused him to be placed on FBI and United Nations watch-lists along with his wife and GRF secretary Patricia Vinck.

Nou Mestalla

The stadium architects are Reid Fenwick Asociados and ArupSport, and the cost is estimated between 250 and 300 million euros.

Paris Photo

The festival also has a jury prize associated with a theme (2007: "Pleasure, Distilled") awarded to the artist whose work best expresses the theme (in 2007, this prize – sponsored by BMW – was 12,000 euros).

Peruvian Connection

Today, the company has about 200 employees in the United States, South America and the U.K. Peruvian Connection catalogs are printed in English with prices in dollars or pounds sterling, and in German with pricing in Euros.

Pierre Le Guennec

Pierre Le Guennec is a retired French electrician who announced, in 2010, that he was in possession of 271 undocumented, never before seen works by Pablo Picasso that were estimated to be worth at least 60 million euros (about US$80 million).

Poetin

The bidding between 10 parties started at 100,000 Euros, and eventually resulted in a purchase by Peter and Patty van der Zwan of stable De Keizershoeve in Kessel, Netherlands, and the ING Bank, for use as a brood mare.

RCI Banque

RCI Banque offers automobile financing lines (11.09 billion euros in financing and 1,024,771 vehicles at the end of 2011), insurance (2.5 million active insurance policies at the end of 2011) and related services, including car loans (used and brand-new), rentals with purchasing options, leases, long-term rentals for retail customers and services, such as maintenance, extended warranties, roadside assistance, fleet management, and credit cards.

Rübeland Railway

On 17 December 2008 the ex-Prussian no. 95 1027 was transferred from Arnstadt shed to the Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works, where it will be made operational for the Rübeland Railway at a cost of 350,000 euros.

Shikabala

In late July, Emirate side Al Wasl offered 600,000 Euros for a one-year loan offer for Shikabala, however Zamalek refused the bid asking for $1.5 million US.

Shpëtim Idrizi

On December 10, 2012, Idrizi, and Dashamir Tahiri presented to the Parliament of Albania a resolution where PDIU asked from Greece reparations in the amount of 10 Billion Euros for the Expulsion of Cham Albanians.

Stevica Ristić

He was the best striker in Makedonska 1. Liga over his first three seasons with them and his great form earned him a 250,000 Euros transfer to Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors in the South Korean K-League.

Stichting INGKA Foundation

In 2011, the foundation reportedly donated 65 million euros; however, in that year plans were announced to increase the contributions to about 100 million euros per year, with 40 million euros over three years going to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya—the rest would be split between UN agencies such as UNICEF, UNHCR and UNDP, and Save the Children.

Stijn Schaars

PSV pays 1.6 million euros for both Schaars and his teammate Santiago Arias.

Strait of Messina Bridge

On 6 March 2009, as part of a massive new public works programme, Silvio Berlusconi's government announced that plans to construct the Messina bridge had been revived, pledging €1.3 billion for the bridge as a contribution to its estimated cost of €6.1 billion euros.

Taison

After being linked with a host of clubs across Europe, including Wolfsburg and Napoli Taison eventually signed for Ukrainian club Metalist Kharkiv for an approximate fee of 6 million euros.

Tali-Ihantala 1944

The film received 350,000 euros in production support from the Finnish Film Foundation.

Union nationale des associations de défense des familles et de l'individu

The association is sponsored by various ministries, including the ministry of Youth and sport and by social affaires, as well as by various communes and departments totalling 450 000 euros in 2002, over 80% of its budget.

Vatopedi monastery

The financial writer Michael Lewis reports that a Greek parliamentary commission estimated the value of government property received by the monastery at one billion euros.

Vincenzo Licciardi

An anti-Camorra raid was also undertaken by the Guardia di Finanza in Naples and the surrounding town of Frosinone, who seized property, commercial companies, shares of stakes in companies, apartments, buildings, land, cars, motorcycles, with a total estimated value of 300 million euros.

Vlad Marin

Eventually, the English club paid a compensation sum to Lazio speculated to be around the sum of 400.000 euros to avoid a public scandal.

Willis Ochieng

Singaporean Wilson Raj Perumal is said to have paid 50 000 euros to Ochieng of possibly having allowed two times some easy goals.

Zaruhi Postanjyan

In October 2013, when Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan addressed the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg, Postanjyan took the floor to ask him if he had visited a casino in Europe, if it was true that he had lost 70 million euros in the process and where he had obtained the money.


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