EUROPEAN HEADLINES
BBC Europe – Reza Zarrab case: Gold trader implicates Turkish President Erdogan. A controversial Turkish-Iranian gold trader has told a US court that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan personally approved his sanction-breaking deals with Iran. Reza Zarrab, 34, is a key witness in the criminal trial of a Turkish banker whom he allegedly worked with to help Iran launder money.
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| Le Figaro |
Deficit: wrangling between Paris and Brussels
France is negotiating certain points of its 2017 budget with the Commission, in order to keep its promise to get the deficit back below 3% of GDP. It’s a long way from being a done-deal. |
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| Frankfurter Allgemeine |
Germany restricts ties to North Korea
Beijing and Moscow against isolation of the country / America threatening with “total destruction.” |
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| Corriere Della Sera |
Banks, clash reopened
PD attacks: Vigilance lacking over Etruria. Irritation of Bank of Italy. |
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| Gazeta Wyborcza |
Dependent courts, not free elections
It is the final stretch on Law and Justice’s (PiS) road to take control over courts and the electoral system. The President of the Supreme Courts warns against ‘degradation’ of the most important body of the judicial system, while the head of the National Election Commission (PKW) talks about a blow to apolitical elections. |
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| El Pais |
Misinformation on the Internet: New threat to security
Spanish government strategic plan includes this danger from now on. |
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| The Malta Independent |
EP delegation to meet Chief Justice, PM today; no reply from Schembri
The European Parliament delegation currently in Malta on a fact-finding mission is this morning expected to meet Chief Justice Silvio Camilleri. The MEPs, from the PANA and LIBE Committees, are also expected to hold talks with Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and Minister for Justice Owen Bonnici. |
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| Expresso |
Costa got the OK from Merkel and Macron for Centeno to run
António Costa: “We have a candidate and a president, unless something unexpected happens” Portugal has 9 votes. The backstage of the negotiations. Government partners stand against the candidacy. What is the job of the Eurogroup president? |
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| Delo |
Second railway track within touching distance
The European Commission has granted €109 million for the second railway track of the Divača-Koper railway line from the Connecting Europe Facility. |
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| NYT |
Populism lives in East Europe
Former Soviet bloc nations spurn traditional politics, widening split in the EU. |
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They have released Rosneft ‘daughters’ from a manager
Kommersant reports on the details of the fraud committed, according to the Interior Ministry, by Sergei Bogdanov, former adviser to former Vice-President of JSC Rosneft Igor Maydannik, and bankruptcy trustee of Roneft ‘daughter’ OJSC “Nizhnevartovskneftegaz” oil company Oleg Smetanin. After the bankruptcy of Nizhnevartovskneftegaz, a structure controlled by Sergei Bogdanov, using fictitious documents, declared the debt of more than RUB 3.2 billion, but agreed to refunding 10% of it. |
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