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Czech energy and media oligarch Daniel Kretinsky’s EPH group aims to exercise its option to increase its stake in Slovakia’s main power company Slovenske elektrarne (SE) to 66%, EPH said. The move to buy Italian power company Enel’s 33% stake would give EPH effective control of SE, though the government retains a 34% blocking minority stake. It would also mark Enel’s exit from Slovakia after almost 20 years, during which it has rowed constantly with the government and struggled to modernise the formerly state-owned utility. Kretinsky’s spokesperson Daniel Castvaj told the Czech Press Agency (C…

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