To help things along, he ordered a vast stocktake (to run to 32 studies, in four tranches) to identify where Britain is most egregiously under Brussels' heel.
By 2004, Donadelli and others had succeeded in extracting from Rome a pledge of €3m to be paid in three tranches to the local offices of the heritage ministry.
The former Facebook marketing exec, who between 2014 and 2017 ran a couple of global marketing partner programs at Facebook and Instagram, left the social network at the start of last year to found the business — raising $9.6M in seed funding in two tranches, according to Crunchbase.
The member of staff of the oil company, Penneco Oil, unwittingly downloaded the malware on to a company computer which resulted in $3.5m £2.3mm) to be transferred in two separate tranches to accounts in Russia and Belarus.
That early-stage funding — totalling €2.6 million — also came in two tranches, dating back to May 2009 and August 2010.
But its strategy was apparently enough to convince investors to provide it with $6.5 million in seed funding over two tranches, money the company plans to use to expand into a small number of Bay Area practices, then other practices in California, before rolling out nationally.
The Italians, who are taking 75 Eurofighters in the first two tranches, now supply up to 38% of the plane after the £648m acquisition of BAE's avionics business, now renamed Selex, this year.
After an 11-hour meeting in Brussels which ended in the early hours of Wednesday morning, eurozone finance ministers agreed to release two tranches of funds, €7.5bn in June and €2.8bn in September, and to implement measures to ease Greece's €321bn debt mountain in a number of stages.
The extra payments come in two tranches and are in addition to the £747m Virgin paid to take control of the "good" part of Northern Rock on 1 January this year.
