EUROPEAN HEADLINES
BBC Europe – Orly airport attack: Drugs and alcohol found in gunman’s blood. Blood tests have revealed that a gunman who attacked soldiers at Orly airport in Paris on Saturday had consumed drugs and alcohol. Ziyed Ben Belgacem, 39, was killed after he put a gun to a soldier’s head saying he wanted to “die for Allah”.
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UK seeks German defence pact to bolster post-Brexit solidarity
Ms May aims for goodwill from EU states. Berlin anxious to prove military responsibilities. |
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| WSJE |
Bumpy start slows Trump
Controversies and legislative infighting have impeded the president’s agenda. |
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| INYT |
Door-busting raids’ heavy toll
SWAT teams storm homes in US on search warrants and leave a gruesome trail. |
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| Le Monde |
Presidential election: candidates faced with rejection of globalisation
On 20 March, Fillon, Hamon, Le Pen, Macron and Mélenchon will confront each other for three hours on TF1. This debate is likely to be decisive. |
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| Les Echos |
Free trade: a historical “no” from the US
At the G20, Washington refused to sign a pledge against protectionism. An icy meeting between Donald Trump and Angela Merkel at the White House. |
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| Frankfurter Allgemeine |
Schulz: This is the start of the Chancellor’s conquest
He is elected SPD chairman with one hundred percent. Gabriel: Cheerful transition. |
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| Sueddeutsche Zeitung |
100 percent for Martin Schulz
The new head of the SPD is entering the election campaign with the best result in post-war history. At the congress, the chancellor candidate calls for major federal investment in education. |
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| La Repubblica |
The SPD chooses Schulz, “I will beat Merkel”
The SPD has officially chosen the former head of the European Parliament as its candidate. |
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| Il Sole 24 Ore |
Waiting for the beginning of the lowering of the retirement age
Crucial week for new retirement rules. |
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| Gazeta Wyborcza |
All media in Kaczyński’s hands
Law and Justice wants to re-Polonise media in Poland seeing it as a prerequisite to winning the next elections. For many years politicians of the right-wing and the ruling Law and Justice have had a serious problem with the fact that large media concerns seated in Germany (like Axel Springer, Neue Passauer or Baue) publish so many press titles in Poland. |
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| El Pais |
Puigdemont and Junqueras propose that the Government follows the Scottish path
In an article in El País, the two leaders of the Catalonian region ask la Moncloa to negotiate “an agreed referendum”. |
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| Expansion |
ACS, OHL and FCC are the leaders in the Spanish public works sector
Contracts with the Spanish government account for €1.3 billion. |
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UNITED KINGDOM
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| The Times |
May will tell bosses to give workers more rights
Crackdown on exploitation of self-employed. |
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| The Guardian |
Trump attacked by former UK envoy over wiretapping claims
President accused of “peddling falsehoods” and endangering US-UK relations. |
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