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03/10 – Today’s headlines from across the EU

EUROPEAN HEADLINES

BBC EuropeHungary PM claims EU migrant quota referendum victory. Nearly 98% of those who took part supported the government’s call to reject the EU plan. But only 43% of the electorate voted, short of the 50% required to be valid.

FT Europe

May sets Brexit course with hint of clean break from single market.

UK PM sets March deadline to trigger talks. No compromise on freedom of movement.

WSJE

New focus on Trump taxes.

The portions of Donald Trump’s tax records that became public this weekend fill in pieces of the puzzle of his financial dealings but don’t show exactly how wealthy he is and how much tax he has paid while accumulating his fortune.

INYT

The torment of Venezula’s mentally ill.

At a loss for medications, thousands are left to drift into despair and psychosis.

FRANCE

Le Monde

The left-wing supporters who want to vote in the right-wing primary.

“Le Monde” interviewed voters who consider themselves left-wing, but will cast ballots in the right-wing primaries, on 20 and 27 November. Their main motivation is to avoid a duel between Nicolas Sarkozy and Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election.

Les Echos 

Tax on dividends: the new fiscal quagmire.

The Constitutional Council is forcing the Finance ministry to revise this symbolic levy for the Socialist Party. The state could have to pay back €8 billion in the event of European censorship in 2017.

GERMANY

Frankfurter Allgemeine

No publication today.

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Sueddeutsche Zeitung

No publication today.

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ITALY

La Repubblica

Orbán stopped on migrants.

Despite the fact that 98% of the votes went against Brussels, the results are not valid, as less than 50% of the electorate cast a ballot.

Il Sole 24 Ore 

The Italy of crime: Rimini and Milan top the list.

Criminal phenomenon in decline, but increase in scams and online frauds.

POLAND

Gazeta Wyborcza

Big money game.

Polish companies conquer the video games market coining it into the Polish economy’s specialisation. In her exposé, Prime Minister Beata Szydło declared support for computer games industry through the ARP Games company, which was founded at end of July.

SPAIN

El Pais

The PSOE Management Commission wants to reward unity.

Internal management wants to avoid new elections.

Expansion

The merger dance begins.

Bankia and BMN launch a new phase of banking concentration.

UNITED KINGDOM

The Times

EU leaders reject May over “hard” Brexit talks.

Merkel and Tusk oppose as PM sets March date.

The Guardian 

May focuses on “hard Brexit”.

PM pledges to trigger article 50 by end of March. Border controls to be priority over single market. UK to withdraw from European court of justice.

 

 

 

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