Twitter CEO Elon Musk?
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
EU member states are looking at whether to impose a ceiling on what they would pay for Russian oil as a way to hit Kremlin revenues, Twitter’s board has accepted a roughly $44bn offer to sell the company to Elon Musk that would result in the world’s richest man seizing control of the influential social media platform, and French President Emmanuel Macron faces much tougher challenges in his second term in office.
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EU weighs cap on price paid for Russian oil as way to hit Kremlin revenues
Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s $44bn takeover offer
Macron faces a complex economic juggling act
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk |
| 0:11.6 | Good morning for the Financial Times. |
| 0:13.3 | Today is Tuesday, April 26th, and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:18.5 | The Board of Twitter agreed to sell the company to Elon Musk, |
| 0:22.3 | the FT's James Fontanella Khan will outline what we know about the deal, |
| 0:26.3 | and what we don't know. |
| 0:27.7 | Is the current management of Twitter going to stay in place? |
| 0:30.8 | Nobody knows. |
| 0:32.0 | Is Jack Dorsey going to come back to run the company? |
| 0:35.2 | Nobody knows. |
| 0:36.4 | Is he going to make it a subscription model out of the company? |
| 0:40.0 | And European officials are looking at a new way to increase the pressure on Moscow. |
| 0:44.4 | Plus, Emmanuel Macron has another mandate to lead France, |
| 0:48.0 | but his second term in office will be much more challenging. |
| 0:51.8 | I'm Jess Smith in Fromark, Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:58.4 | The EU has been divided over whether to ban Russian oil imports. |
| 1:05.2 | They haven't done so yet because their economies are so dependent on Russia for energy. |
| 1:09.6 | But now officials are discussing a ceiling on what they'll pay for Russian oil. |
| 1:14.6 | This would hit Kremlin revenues, but wouldn't be a total blockade. |
| 1:18.4 | It's one of several proposals on the table this week, |
| 1:20.8 | when EU ambassadors meet to discuss a sixth package of sanctions against Russia. |
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