EUROPEAN HEADLINES
BBC Europe – Instagram submits to Russia censor’s demands. Instagram has blocked posts in Russia relating to corruption claims made by the country’s most prominent opposition leader. It follows a demand by the country’s internet censor that the Facebook-owned service restrict access to posts on its platform connected to allegations made by Alexei Navally. Its response contrasts with that of Google’s YouTube service.
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| Les Echos |
How France wants to defend its flagships.
The Montebourg decree will be extended. Investors’ commitments will be examined and violations sanctioned. Use of the state’s “golden shares” will be facilitated. |
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| Sueddeutsche Zeitung |
Gentiloni urges SPD to form the grand coalition
Italy’s social democratic prime minister appeals to his German party colleagues to form a government with CDU/CSU. The left-wing “does not curl up in its own identity, with the conviction of saving its soul.” |
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| Il Sole 24 Ore |
EMA, Tajani reopens the game: “European Parliament decides”
Milan etrepreneurs: Mattarella should intervene. President Tajani: the assembly will vote in autonomy over the new seat of the EU Medicines Agency |
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| El Pais |
Spanish government plans to end Catalan-only option in education
Education minister is analysing whether to use article 155 to end current education system in Catalonia where every subject is taught in Catalan, in face of political stalemate in Catalonia |
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| L’Echo |
Ramaphosa wants to eradicate corruption in South Africa
A former socialist labour union militant is the new South African Head of State. |
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CYPRUS
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| Alithea |
Erdoğan is not backing down, not even an inch
A demonstration of strength by the Turkish President |
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| Naftemporiki |
The ten commandments by the Independent authority for Public Revenue over tax fines
Clarifications regarding the fines imposed for serious violations. |
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HUNGARY
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| Magyar Nemzet |
Billions for Tiborcz?
Orbán’s son-in-law may have earned a fortune on sellling Elios – Guidelines for crisis communication |
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| Ziarul Financiar |
Data protection authority: Be ready, GDPR will not be postponed by a single day
By the end of May, the authority plans to employ several people and finalise the law for the enforcement of the new European rules. |
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SWEDEN
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| Dagens Nyheter |
Increased demand for Sweden to take back asylum seekers
Between 2016 and 2017, requests from other EU Member States regarding Sweden re-accepting asylum seekers increased by more than 30%. Brend Parusel, expert at the Swedish Migration Agency, comments that this indicates that people who are denied in Sweden travel to other EU Member States, but that many others live hidden from the rest of society. |
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