EUROPEAN HEADLINES
BBC Europe – EU workplace headscarf ban is legal, says ECJ. Employers are entitled to ban workers from the “visible wearing of any political, philosophical or religious sign” including headscarves, Europe’s top court has ruled. But the ban must be based on internal company rules requiring all employees to “dress neutrally”, said the European Court of Justice (ECJ). It cannot be based on the wishes of a customer, it said
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Do traders see date early?
Market moves in U.K. suggest investors may be informed about unpublished statistics. |
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| INYT |
Russia piggybacks on a hacker
F.B.I. says the Kremlin grafted a spying operation to a cybercriminal’s scheme. |
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| Le Monde |
Taxes, pensions, State: Fillon’s cuts
The candidate for Les Républicains is to present his economic programme today, Monday 13 March, marked by the abolition of 500,000 public jobs. |
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| Les Echos |
Abandoning nuclear power: a €200 billion promise
The Institut Montaigne puts a figure on the astronomic cost for France of giving up on nuclear power. Benoît Hamon and Jean-Luc Mélenchon point to the cost of persevering with nuclear power. |
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| Frankfurter Allgemeine |
Erdoğan: Dear Ms Merkel, you support terrorists
Brussels calls Ankara for moderation. Chancellor sides with The Hague.
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| Sueddeutsche Zeitung |
Merkel must convince Trump
Economic actors call on chancellor to persuade US president to give up protectionism. Hundreds of thousands of jobs in the US depend on German companies. |
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| La Repubblica |
Scotland announces a referendum in order to remain in Europe. The EU puts pressure on Italy.
London gives the green light for the start of Brexit. |
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| Gazeta Wyborcza |
PiS strategy in euro currency
Gazeta Wyborcza discloses the benefactors of Law and Justice – ACRE party and New Direction foundation, and also the expenses of the PiS family. Poles suddenly paid €200,000 into the organisations’ accounts and ACRE financed PiS’s election convention. Doubts surface that it might break EU law. |
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| El Pais |
Mas, disqualified for two years for disobeying Justice
The High Court of Catalonia condemns ‘former president’ for illegally planning 9-N referendum. |
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| Expansion |
The Supreme Court averts strikes with subcontractors
The Court gives green light to allow clients to hire subcontractors and neutralize strike. |
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| FT |
Scot’s call for new independence vote lays down challenge to May
Plan to pull trigger on Brexit delayed. UK premier faces tough battle on two fronts. |
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| The Times |
Sturgeon ambushes May
First minister wants independence referendum by 2019. Europeans pour cold water on her EU membership hopes. |
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| The Guardian |
May’s Brexit plan upstaged as Sturgeon seizes her moment
PM rejects call for new Scottish referendum. UK “has not moved an inch” says first minister. No 10 will not trigger article 50 until late March. |
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