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Business Matters: Brexit: EU Leaders Meet in Salzburg

Brexit: EU Leaders Meet in Salzburg

20/09/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Brexit: EU Leaders Meet in Salzburg

UK premier Theresa May says there is only a choice of her plan, or leaving without a deal

The UK prime minister, Theresa May, faces the annual conference of her own Conservative Party shortly, but ahead of that she has been trying to put over the message that there is only a choice of her plan called Chequers, or leaving without agreement. Right now she has been meeting fellow EU leaders at a summit in the Austrian city of Salzburg. Jacopo Barigasi, with news website Politico, is in Salzburg.

There's  been a surge in bike sharing schemes around the world in the last couple of years  - thanks largely to Chinese companies promoting  schemes where you can leave the bike wherever you want to after you have used it.  And recently a series of failures of the schemes in European and US cities has raised the question - does the business model really work?  The BBC's Ed Butler hit the streets to find out.

Some of the world's largest car makers, Renault and Volkswagen have announced they will soon launch their own electric car sharing services which could help cut overall emissions. One French firm that says it already has two million car sharing users across Europe is Drivy. The company operates in France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Austria and the UK. We spoke to its founder and boss Paulin Dementhon.

Presenter Roger Hearing is joined by Peter Morici, Professor of International Business at the University of Maryland, who's in Washington,  and Catherine Yeung, Investment Director with Fidelity International, who's in Hong Kong.

(Picture: British Prime Minister Theresa May is greeted by Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz at an informal summit of leaders of the European Union on September 19, 2018 in Salzburg, Austria. Credit: Getty Images)

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