INTESA is reportedly planning to launch a takeover bid for Monte dei Paschi di Siena in the week beginning Nov. 23.

An ECB Governing Council member said the French government needs to put its public finances in order.

The Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and National Forestry and Grassland Administration issued joint guidance to apply differentiated, positive‑list land management for facility agricultural land to boost farmers’ incomes, agricultural modernization and rural revitalization. The notice encourages siting facility farmland on unused areas—Gobi, desert, saline‑alkali land—plus existing construction land and idle land, and permits occupation of arable land outside permanent basic farmland. It removes scale limits on production facilities, imposes land‑share and size caps for different types of ancillary facilities, and encourages facility farmland to be used primarily for agricultural production.