16/09 – Today’s headlines from across the EU

EUROPEAN HEADLINES

FT – GE switches 500 jobs to France in blow for US manufacturing. Move linked to loss of government-backed trade finance. Boeing plans staff cuts.

WSJE – Hungary seals off Serbia. New border fencing, criminal laws aim to thwart migrant flow, drawing some fire.

INYT – For Syrians who remain, daily life is a nightmare. Airstrikes still pound Damascus suburbs, even after most residents flee.

BALTIC STATES

Baltic Times – Grybauskaite slams “irresponsible” Moscow for Syrian actions.

“The reports about the stationing of Russian military positions in Syria are indeed alarming,” a Grybauskaite advisor told Ziniu Radijas news radio on September 15, 2015. “[Because] when there is a conflict, moving military forces to a war zone is an example of irresponsible policies”

FRANCE

Le Monde – Berlin threatens with sanctions the countries refusing to take in refugees. European ministers failed to reach an agreement on a fair sharing of asylum seekers on Monday 14 September in Brussels.

Les Echos – Social welfare: an endless deficit. The Court of Auditors estimates that there will be no return to equilibrium before 2021. Health insurance expenditures at risk of getting out of control, in the absence of major reforms.

GERMANY

Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ) – Merkel rejects Seehofer’s criticism on her policy for refugees. The German Chancellor said: We can do this, and we will do it.

Suedeutsche Zeitung – I say it again: We can do it. German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended her decision to receive many refugees.

ITALY

La Repubblica – Anti-austerity plan, the PD divided on reform. Renzi’s anti-austerity plan for Europe has been submitted: 7 billion additional euros. Debate continues on reform within Renzi’s party.

Il Sole 24 Ore – Yet another delay for capital returns. Professionals were left dissatisfied with the extension granted, leaving open the possibility of another extension for voluntary disclosure, which would be after 30 September.

NETHERLANDS

Het Financieele Dagblad – Dutch budget for 2016. The cabinet has been slow in executing the reforms it agreed upon in such haste and has underestimated the difficulties that are now being encountered in their implementation.

POLAND

Gazeta Wyborcza – Duda: Do not come back. “If I encouraged you to come back to Poland, I would lie because economic growth is demonstrated just in papers, poverty spreads among Poles and middle class is vanishing,” President of Poland Andrzej Duda told Polish media in London.

SPAIN

El Pais – Obama defends before the King ‘a strong and united Spain.’ The US President reasserts the strategic importance of its Southern European ally amid pro-independence challenge in Catalonia.

Expansion – Catalonia will save €13.5 billion thanks to the government. Interview with Rosa Sanchez-Yebra, General Secretary for Treasury and Financial Policy.

The Times – Veterans open fire after Corbyn snubs anthem. Labour leader branded a bigot for refusing to sing at service.

The Guardian – Pressure on Labour over EU as union vote sounds alarm. Tories accused of attacking workers’ rights. Corbyn says ministers are “poverty deniers.” Chancellor’s austerity plan is a “political choice.”