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The European, billed as "Europe's first national newspaper", was a weekly newspaper founded by Robert Maxwell, the first edition appearing on May 11, 1990. Time Magazine (May 15, 1990) reported that Maxwell originally envisioned a daily with a circulation of 650,000 but by the launch date plans had been cut down to a more realistic weekly with aimed circulation of 225,000. In reality, the circulation peaked at 180,000, over half of which was British.
In 1996, the London-based European had a staff of 70 in London, 3 in Brussels, 1 in Paris, 1 in Berlin, 1 in Moscow, as well as a network of 100 freelance writers throughout Europe.
The Barclay brothers bought the newspaper in 1992, investing an estimated $110 million and in 1996 transforming it into a high-end tabloid format oriented at the business community edited by Andrew Neil.
The newspaper folded in 1999.
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