EUROPEAN HEADLINES
BBC Europe -Erdogan calls snap election in June. Turkey will hold snap presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June, brought forward by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from November 2019 He has run Turkey since 2002 and will seek five more years with beefed up powers approved in a referendum last year. The idea of an early poll was initially proposed by nationalist allies. Mr Erdogan said in televised speech the country needed the new election to rid it of “the diseases of the old system”.
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| L’Humanite |
European ambitions: Macron stagnating in Strasbourg
The Head of State wanted to use the European chamber as a launching ramp for LREM’s 2019 European election campaign. |
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| Frankfurter Allgemeine |
Macron warns against a relapse into nationalism
“The answer is not authoritarian democracy, but democracy’s authority.” |
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| Corriere Della Sera |
The mandate will go to Casellati
Exploratory mandate today. Yes from M5S to three proposals of PD programme. |
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| Cyprus Mail |
EU issues Turkey a harsh warning
Told to commit to neighbourly relations, Turkey is moving away from Europe. |
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The IMF resets the game
The IMF puts pressure on the eurozone for drastic interventions in the Greek debt. |
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| Nepzava |
Expensive German goodwill
Critics say Angela Merkel should urge the expulsion of Fidesz instead of holding a protective screen over Viktor Orbán’s regime. |
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| Tagesblatt |
Alone on the floor
EUROPEAN UNION: Macron is campaigning for the end of the reform backlog. |
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| The Times of Malta |
Police focus more on organised crime
No politician has yet been questioned in the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder probe, as the police continues to believe the person who ordered the assassination was likely to be part of an organised crime syndicate. |
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| Publico |
Commissioner Moedas says to I: Macron is a bath of political modernity
Portuguese Commissioner is delighted with Emmanuel Macron. “He has the balance between emotion and rationality that defines a leader”, Commissioner Moedas says to I. |
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| Delo |
The civil war for democracy
EU Member States support French President Macron’s suggestions, but show reservations about implementing them. |
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