20/07 – Today’s headlines from across the EU

EUROPEAN HEADLINES

FT – Global climate deal edges nearer amid common understanding. Negotiators keen to avoid repeat of 2009. Differences remain over costs and timing.

WSJE – Growth hunt spurs leap in tech shares. Investors are handsomely rewarding large technology firms for sales gains, underscoring how scarce growth has become amid economic softness.

INYT – Getting away with murder on high seas. With jurisdictions hazy, even a video of shooting fails to bring prosecution.

FRANCE

Le Monde – Barack Obama launches the reform of the US penal system. The US President denounces a system biased by money and race, and one of the highest incarceration per capita rates in the world.

Les Echos – French don’t trust Mr Hollande on taxes. Fiscal break pledge by 2017 still faces skepticism. ‘Fiscal fed-up’ feeling does not ease, according to an Odoxa – Les Echos poll.

GERMANY

Frankfurter Allgemeine – Dispute in the Federal government over Greek policy. Federal Vice Chancellor Gabriel accuses Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble SPD to have upset the SPD.

Suedeutsche Zeitung – CSU wants stricter policy against refugees. CSU head Horst Seehofer requires rigorous measures; the party discusses possibility for asylum seekers from the Balkans to be gathered in tent cities.

ITALY

La Repubblica – Sicily: clash between Rosario Crocetta and the Democrat Party. Hostilities are out in the open between Crocetta, president of the region of Sicily, and the democrat party. The region is slowly sliding into a leadership crisis.

Il Sole 24 Ore – Verona and Bocconi take top place in university rankings. University of Verona has been rated as number 1 among state universities while Bocconi University tops the non-state rankings.

POLAND

Gazeta – We will all pay for junk employment contracts. Experts warn that the so-called junk employment contracts pose a threat to the stability of public finances in Poland. Rough estimations show that the state will have to earmark 1.5% of GDP to subsidise the pensions of people who are currently employed under such contracts.

SPAIN

El Pais – Mas warns that voting against him is voting against Catalonia. On 27 September, voters will have to choose between freedom and decadence, he states.

Expansion – Strike from ACS, Acciona, Ferrovial, FCC, Sacyr and OHL. The companies take part to tenders abroad for €30 billion in a record year.

The Times – Cameron crackdown on anti-British Muslims. British Muslims who hold “intolerant ideas” and create a climate for extremism will become the target of a new clampdown to be announced by David Cameron today.

The Guardian – David Cameron: extremist ideology is ‘struggle of our generation’. PM to set out government’s five-year strategy, saying: ‘There are people born and raised in this country who don’t really identify with Britain’