Debt Instrument, Convertible, Conversion Premium, Percentage

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Debt Instrument, Convertible, Share Reference Price

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Debt Instrument, Face Amount, Additional Debt Issued

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Debt Instrument, Face Amount of Individual Bonds Issued

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Debt Instrument, Unamortized Premium, Percentage

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The price per share of the conversion feature embedded in the debt instrument.

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Ratio applied to the conversion of debt instrument into equity with equity shares divided by debt principal amount.

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Face (par) amount of debt instrument at time of issuance.

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Contractual interest rate for funds borrowed, under the debt agreement.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Debt (Synthetic Bonds) (Details) - Convertible debt - Synthetic bonds due 2021	Mar. 10, 2016 EUR (€) € / shares	Mar. 03, 2016 EUR (€) € / shares	Feb. 03, 2016 € / shares	Jan. 25, 2016 EUR (€)
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument, face amount				€ 375,000,000
Interest rate, stated percentage				0.875%
Debt instrument, face amount, additional debt issued		€ 75,000,000
Debt instrument, unamortized premium, percentage		112.43802%
Debt instrument, convertible, share reference price \| € / shares		€ 48.8355	€ 40.7940
Debt instrument, convertible, conversion premium, percentage		40.00%
Debt instrument, convertible, conversion price \| € / shares	€ 28.8632		€ 57.1116
Debt instrument, convertible, conversion ratio	3,464.6193
Debt instrument, face amount of individual bonds issued	€ 100,000