09/03 – Today’s headlines from across the EU

EUROPEAN HEADLINES

FT Europe – US banks strengthen global grip as profits dwarf European rivals. Top Wall Street groups’ revenue twice that of competitors. Faster adjustment after crisis.

WSJE – EU strikes deal with Turkey. Despite misgivings, leaders see hope of easing migrant crisis.

INYT – Contras are back, but Nicaragua denies it. Rebels reflect anger against president as he has consolidated power.

FRANCE

Le Monde – The Europeans throw migrants back towards Turkey. The twenty eight EU leaders talked lengthily on the German-Turkish plan that outsources to Ankara the management of migrants.

Les Echos – Growth: the ECB is looking for a new way to boost the economy. The European institution has bought €600 billion of government debts since March 9th 2015. This innovative programme, which is a move aimed at bringing inflation back, has weakened some sectors of the economy, such as life-insurance.

GERMANY

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) – Merkel: the return to a normal situation is under way. Chancellor satisfied with EU-Turkey summit. CSU warns against visa-facilitation.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) – SPD praises Merkel, Union remains cool. After the EU refugee summit, CSU leader Seehofer warns against excessive concessions to Turkey. Socialists name the solution agreed in Brussels a “step in the right direction.”

ITALY

La Repubblica – Egypt misled the truth about Giulio’s end. Secret interrogatories, searches and data collecting to block the investigation. A friend of Giulio says: “We were controlled; the police already came for him.”

Il Sole 24 Ore – The EU “saves” Italy with three billion euros. For the EU Commission, Italy’s debt is excessively unbalanced but not enough to request the opening of a procedure.

POLAND

Gazeta Wyborcza – Our free voice in Council of Europe. “A political-system revolution is taking place in Poland. Free media are the only warrantor of democracy,” Jaroslaw Kurski, the first deputy of Gazeta Wyborcza daily’s editor-in-chief said yesterday in Paris, at a meeting of the Committee for Political Affairs and Democracy of the Council of Europe.

SPAIN

El País – Iglesias and Errejón’s position on Podemos’ control is found shocking. The party also faces the threat of a rebellion in Catalonia.

The Times – Blundering doctors get protection from blame. Doctors and nurses who admit their mistakes will be promised immunity under a new regime that seeks to end a blame culture in the NHS.

The Guardian – Online predators blamed as child sex abuse jumps 30%. Cases of recorded child sexual abuse increased by more than 30% last year, figures reveal today, and police chiefs fear the rise is being driven by the internet allowing predators to search online for victims.