01/03 – Today’s headlines from across the EU

EUROPEAN HEADLINES

FT Europe – Argentine debt blockade set to end after settlement with ‘holdouts’. Accord with funds a victory for Macri. Move likely to end 15-year capital markets ban.

WSJE – China eases bank lending. PBOC shifts stance and cuts reserve requirement, risking a hit to the yuan.

INYT – Trump’s penchant for conspiracies. Willingness to touch on fictive theories puts him in a unique political class.

BBC Europe –EU migrant crisis: Calais ‘Jungle’ clearance work resumes.Demolition teams have moved in to the French port of Calais to dismantle more makeshift shelters in the migrant camp known as the “Jungle”. French police have warned that they will use force if the migrants refuse to move to nearby shipping containers.

FRANCE

Le Monde – United States: Trump and Clinton favourites in Super Tuesday. Eleven US states will make a choice on Tuesday 1 March on the Democrat and Republican candidates to the presidential election.

Les Echos – Labour code reform: what Valls will have to change. Under heavy pressure, the Prime Minister has delayed the presentation of the text to 24 March. He says he is ready to “change” a few things but excludes any “turnaround” of the text.

GERMANY

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) – Macedonian Police uses tear gas against onrushing migrants. Brussels is working on an emergency plan for Greece. Italy flies Syrians from Beirut.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung – Athens loses control on refugees. One week before the EU summit, thousands are stuck in Greece without secure care. The police push back migrants with tear gas at the border with Macedonia.

ITALY

La Repubblica – Migrants assault the wall. Hundreds of refugees attempted to bring down the wall separating Greece and Macedonia, which led to encounters with the police.

Il Sole 24 Ore – Prices: the crisis continues. Stock exchanges rely on the ECB. Milan: +0.8%. Spread drops to 132.

POLAND

Gazeta Wyborcza – Historic police in action. The Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) has drawn a list of 21 former dignitaries of the Polish People’s Republic (PRL) who might still be hiding top secret materials. Considering that, IPN is set to look for the documents in the dignitaries’ houses; it started with a house of the late General Wojciech Jaruzelski.

SPAIN

El País – Sanchez will call on all parties to avoid new election. Podemos rejects the socialist candidate’s last offer. Rivera warns that he will vote for Sanchez if the pact already signed is not changed.

The Times – Live longer in ‘healthy towns’. ‘Healthy towns’ housing nearly 200,000 people will be built across the country as the NHS starts urban planning for the first time.

The Guardian – Johnson dismisses the PM’s anti-Brexit case as ‘baloney’. War of words among senior Conservatives over Britain’s relationship with Europe intensified last night.