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20/04 – Today’s headlines from across the EU

EUROPEAN HEADLINES

BBC Europe – India: French envoy Pascal Mazurier acquitted of raping daughter.  A former French diplomat charged with raping his three-year-old daughter in India has been cleared of all charges. Pascal Mazurier, who was a consular official in the southern city of Bangalore, was arrested in 2012 after complaints from his Indian wife. Mr Mazurier told BBC Hindi’s Imran Qureshi that “justice had been done” and a “five year battle” had ended with the ruling.

FRANCE

Fillon, Le Pen, Macron, Mélenchon : why they all claim to be anti-establishment

The four main presidential candidates have all said at one point or another that they are against “the establishment” to rally voters.

GERMANY

AfD chairwoman Petry does not run as top candidate

“Discuss factual issues regardless of personal matters/ Criticism from Gauland”.

ITALY

Law on living will gets the go-ahead but right to conscientious objection for medical practitioners is introduced.

Futile medical care can no longer be imposed on patients.

POLAND

Political interrogation of Tusk

President Donald Tusk testified for eight hours against the former chiefs of the Military Counterintelligence Service. He said that the issue of a political character.

SPAIN

Gonzalez’s detention shows huge corruption in the PP.

Madrid’s former regional president is accused of increasing his wealth thanks to Canal de Isabel II.

AUSTRIA

Harder penalties for double nationality

Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Sobotka, intends to impose fines on illegal dual citizenship. These may mainly concern Turks. The most important questions and answers.

BULGARIA

Majoritarian voting system, water with uranium and Presidency of the Council of the EU – the first topics of the new Parliament

New Chairperson of the National Assembly Dimitar Glavchev talked to 24 Chasa daily after signing the Parliament’s first consensus programme.

CZECH REPUBLIC

The VZP Group also offers mandatory car insurance

Czech National Bank is to give a license to the Pojišťovna VZP to enter the market. The subsidiary of the largest health insurance company in the country will start to look for clients in the market, which this year protects only 21 billion crowns.

PORTUGAL

Venezuela

Mother of all protests against Maduro ends up in violence

 

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