EUROPEAN HEADLINES
BBC Europe – Nicolas Sarkozy: French ex-president ‘to face trial’ over campaign finances. Ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy is to stand trial in an illegal campaign finance case, judicial sources say. Mr Sarkozy faces accusations that his party falsified accounts in order to hide 18m euros (£15m; $20m) of campaign spending in 2012. Mr Sarkozy has repeatedly denied that he was aware of the overspending.
| FT Europe |
Fillon ‘fake jobs’ scandal shakes French bonds as Le Pen fears rise.
Prices hit lowest levels in 18 months. Market concerns over far-right presidential boost. |
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| WSJE |
‘Tiger Cubs’ Lick Their 2016 Wounds.
Famed stock picker Julian Robertson and his protégés have ruled the Wall Street jungle for decades. After a down 2016, their crowns may be slipping. |
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| INYT |
Not ‘lone wolves’ after all.
ISIS guides terror plots around the globe from afar, over the internet. |
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| Le Monde |
New elements in the judicial inquiry to weaken François Fillon.
During a hearing, the Fillon couple tried to prove that Penelope and two of their children worked as parliamentary assistants. |
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| Les Echos |
French presidential elections: markets are starting to worry.
The gap between the French and German rates at the highest level in four years. Conservative candidate Fillon “apologizes” but goes back to being on the offensive to dispel doubts about his candidacy. |
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| Frankfurter Allgemeine |
CDU and CSU choose Merkel as their joint chancellor candidate.
Disagreement on upper limit for refugees. Seehofer praises the chancellor. |
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| Sueddeutsche Zeitung |
Merkel and Seehofer make peace.
“We have an excellent chancellor”: After a long dispute, the CSU also named the CDU head as top candidate for the Bundestag election. But the dissent on an upper limit for refugees remains. |
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| La Repubblica |
Spread exceeds 200, Draghi warns Le Pen: the Euro is irrevocable.
The common currency cannot be changed has warned Mario Draghi, president of the ECB. |
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| Il Sole 24 Ore |
The spread exceeds a quote of 200.
Political uncertainty in France is creating strong tension on all European bonds. |
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| Gazeta Wyborcza |
New school will not teach children.
Scholars and NGOs drew up a list of reservations about curricula for schools under the Ministry of National Education’s upcoming reform. A few hundred-pages long document pinpoints, among others, lack of information on contraception at biology classes, math classes without teaching children about functions and chemistry without isotopes. |
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| El Pais |
Artur Mas defends his case facing the audience and says separatism relies on the support of the Spanish people.
Former President says that the Constitutional Court did not warn him against the 9-N. |
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| Expansion |
El Corte Inglés to join forces with Vodafone and Axa on insurances.
The distribution giant’s insurance market increased by 55% in 2016. |
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| The Times |
Assad hangs thousands of tortured opponents.
Syrian regime kills 13,000 prisoners after trials lasting minutes. |
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| The Guardian |
Trump unfit to address MPs, says Bercow.
Speaker cites “opposition to racism and sexism” as he rules out invitation.
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