Shake-up calls mount as lack of diversity on US boards is laid bare
Reform push lags behind Europe. Directors tend to be older, male and longer serving.
WSJE
VW facing new charges in US
Prosecutors, auto maker discuss criminal settlement involving emissions cheating.
INYT (UK edition)
After “Brexit,” a way back into EU for British Jews
Rarely used 1949 law offers chance to claim citizenship in Germany.
FRANCE
Le Monde
Germany divided on the integration of refugees
Angela Merkel comes back from the summer break to a political context that has never been so tense since taking office in 2005
Les Echos
A tax threatening savers’ deposits
A European institution broke a taboo by taxing the deposits of individual savers. Banks are tempted to pass on the ECB’s negative rates in their prices.
GERMANY
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Berlin accuses Moscow of cynicism in the Syrian conflict
Criticism regarding the proposal for a three-hour ceasefire. Steinmeier meets with Lavrov.
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
Merkel accuses Moscow of cynicism
The federal government has rarely spoken out so clear its criticism of Russia with regard to the war in Syria. The Kremlin, together with Assad, bears the main responsibility for the disaster in Aleppo
POLAND
Gazeta Wyborcza
Horse studs are ruined. Pride of Poland auction ended with fiasco
This year’s auction of Arabian horses was a demonstration of incompetence. The new organisers had difficulties determining who won the bidding sessions, so they had to repeat them. The takings were the lowest in 11 years or more, weakening the event’s prestige
SPAIN
El Pais
Interview with Miquel Iceta, First Secretary of the PSC party
“The alternative solution to Rajoy is either another PP candidate or an independent candidate.”
Expansion
Autonomous Communities increase the number of public officers
Autonomous Communities increased their workforce by 2.7% between 2007 and 2015, despite Brussels’s warnings about their budgetary imbalanc
UNITED KINGDOM
The Times
Alarm over Tasers after police kill football star
Former player is third person to die this year.
The Guardian
Brexit effect to snuff out gains for UK workers
Small pay boost from immigration cut overshadowed by faltering economy
