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...compatriots feel the same way. While Poles have immigrated mainly to several European spots since the country joined the E.U. in 2004, nowhere have they been more prominent than in Ireland. According to Irish officials, more than 150,000 Poles have flocked there in just two years. They now make up the country's largest nonnative population and at least 5% of the workforce. Many go for low-skill jobs in pubs or retail shops, but others arrive with skills in fields like construction and plumbing, which are crucial to feeding the country's appetite for houses and offices...
While the rest of Europe gazed at televised action of recently resumed pro soccer leagues, millions of European sports fans last month tuned in to a decidedly more alien event: Major League Baseball slugger Barry Bonds' surpassing Hank Aaron's home-run record in far-off San Francisco. But viewers who caught the No. 756 coup de circuit from Toulouse weren't squinting at a blurry feed from mlb.com Instead, many Europeans watched Bonds' blast on the North American Sports Network (NASN)--a channel that is spreading that particular strain of U.S. sports mania to Europe...
Officials at NASN, now run by the Disney-owned U.S. sports boss ESPN--which bought the independent European channel from Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports and venture-capital group Benchmark Capital Europe in 2006 for a reported $120 million--say their goal is to reach 100 million households in Europe, surpassing espn's 93 million subscribers in the U.S. The last person to call such an ambitious shot may have been Babe Ruth, but NASN executives say they've tapped into a growing demographic of European sports fans who no longer consider American baseball, football, college basketball or even NASCAR exotic...
They also aren't only baseball fans. Indeed, Schwartz says, variety has been essential to the network's growth, fueled by securing broadcast rights of U.S. sports leagues with varying appeal across markets. Although the National Football League pulled the plug on its European operation, the popularity of the NFL in Germany, he says, made getting broadcast rights essential. Meanwhile, National Basketball Association-crazy nations like France, Spain and Serbia have an appetite for NCAA hoops--especially when locals like France's Joakim Noah become stars of the U.S. college scene. How do you say March Madness in Serbo-Croatian...
...outdone, Dubai's regional rivals have been making some bold global deals of their own. Doha's Qatar Investment Authority is seeking some $2 billion worth of shares in two European stock exchanges, the LSE and Stockholm's OMX, as well as the purchase of the U.K. supermarket giant J Sainsbury. Abu Dhabi, like Dubai, a constituent part of the United Arab Emirates, says its Mubadala Development Co. will pay $1.35 billion for a 7.5% share of the U.S.-based private-equity investment firm Carlyle Group, which owns a diverse range of megacompanies, from chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor and nursing...