EUROPEAN HEADLINES
BBC Europe – Erdogan says EU wastes Turkey’s time. Turkey will find it “comforting” if the EU says it cannot be accepted as a member, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told the BBC. Speaking to HARDtalk’s Zeinab Badawi, he said Turkey was “able to stand on its own two feet”. He also denied the country had jailed 150 journalists, saying only two people with press cards were in prison
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| Les Echos |
A fiscal shock to “boost confidence”
The Prime Minister announces a tax reduction of “nearly €11 billion” in 2018. A flat-rate tax on capital income will be applied next year. Budget 2018: the executive targets a growth of 1.7% and a deficit reduced to 2.7% of GDP.
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| Il Sole 24 Ore |
EU wants national bad banks
Vote of confidence on Veneto banks decree today at the parliament, the text is fixed.
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| El Pais |
Junqueras rejects offer to coordinate the referendum
Puigdemont wants his Vice-President to be the major representative in charge of the vote. Junqueras will only accept if Catalan Democratic party councilors are part of the process.
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| Der Standard |
Informal OSCE crisis diplomacy
Glorius OSCE meeting in a green atmosphere. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) had an exchange on Tuesday on urgent international matters in Mauerbach.
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| Le Soir |
Even if it is weakened, IS remains a threat
The announcement of the likely death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, shortly after the fall of Mosul, does not signal the end of IS.
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| Alithia |
I, AM HERE!
Guterres message to the two community leaders, through his draft report on UNFICYP.
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| Naftemporiki |
In the hourglass of the markets
Stournaras: It would be better if two or three important privatisations take place in the next period.
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| Vecernji List |
Večernji list’s big survey: Do you support Croatia’s eurozone accession?
Croatia can join the euro area within five years at least. Finance must be put in order.
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| The Times of Malta |
Rise in civil marriages
More than half of the marriages celebrated in Malta last year were civil ones, official figures show, but this does not mean religious unions are on their way out.
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| Svenska Dagbladet |
Thousands of people work legally despite not having proper permits
Every year, Sweden registers 8,000 new foreign tax payers despite them not having the proper work permits. Several of them have even received help to find jobs from the Swedish Public Employment Service.
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