The Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg governments partly nationalised Fortis amid uncertainty about its ability to sell assets it holds in ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank.
Ireland's government announced it would split Anglo Irish bank, a nationalised lender crippled by bad loans, into a "funding bank" to manage deposits and an "asset-recovery bank" for toxic debt.
Venezuela's President, Hugo chavez, nationalised a Hilton hotel on the island of Margarita. The Caracas Hilton was nationalised in 2007.
Newcastle's players have proved about as buoyant as their shirt sponsor, Northern Rock. The nationalised mortgage bank is based in the city.
The newly nationalised oil industry kept the structure of the old, and production was limited to try to moderate the flood of money into a country ill-equipped to handle it.
First she ramped up taxes on farmers, then last year she nationalised private pension funds.
In January the government nationalised Anglo Irish bank (often seen as the builders' bank), after its chairman, Sean Fitzpatrick, failed to disclose some euro 83m in personal loans.
Officials say that output at Enlandes, a nationalised milk firm, has risen by 50% in two years.
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Kuwait yesterday said it would not be able to meet its oil production goals without the help of international energy companies, raising the prospect that the oil majors could get access to its oilfields almost30 years after the industry was nationalised.
Some Banks have needed more capital, and a few have been nationalised outright.
The British government’s decision in February to amend the terms of subordinated debt issued by Bradford &Bingley, a nationalised bank, spooked European markets, for example.
On October 25th the Venezuelan subsidiary of Owens-Illinois, an American glass maker, became the 200th business nationalised so far this year.
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