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22/05 – Today’s headlines from across the EU

EUROPEAN HEADLINES

BBC Europe –  German woman killed and Afghan guard beheaded in Kabul. Gunmen in the Afghan capital Kabul have attacked a guesthouse, killing a German woman and beheading an Afghan guard. The attackers stormed a guesthouse run by a Swedish NGO, Operation Mercy, at about 23:30 (19:00 GMT) on Saturday, the Afghan interior ministry said. A second woman, from Finland, is missing and has possibly been kidnapped, the ministry said.

FRANCE

The battle for the Labour Code has begun

The President and the Prime Minister will meet with the trade unions on the Labour Code reform. Jean-Claude Mailly declares to Les Echos that he is ready to discuss “if there is room for manoeuvre”.

GERMANY

Trump requests Islamic world to lead in fight against terrorism

“Battle between good and bad” / Speech in Riad / Huge armarments order for America.

POLAND

Gazeta Polska Codziennie

Kaczynski: we cannot agree to that

The leader of PiS announces a fight in Strasbourg against obligatory refugee relocation

SPAIN

Catalonia to declare independence immediately if there is no referendum

The draft ‘Rupture Law’ imposes the control over judges by the Generalitat, makes the Catalan the only official language, transfers civil servants and facilities of the Spanish government to Catalonia and proclaims a republic

BELGIUM

Migrants: The Mediterranean Sea is deadlier than ever

The crossing is proportionally almost two times more dangerous than last year. Toll: One death per forty crossing attempts.

GREECE

With closed cards

The Commission is after the achievemet of an overall agreement

HUNGARY

They will really not keep quiet

Thousands marched in Budapest again to protest against government measures

PORTUGAL

Clean exit, part 2

Portugal leaves excessive deficit procedure today

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Modestly and in the given direction

Salaries will grow half as much over the next two decades.

U S A

Trump calls on Muslims to confront extremism

US President Trump called Sunday on Muslim leaders across the globe to confront “the crisis of Islamist extremism” in a speech aimed at corralling Arab allies around a new, combined effort to fight terrorism and Iranian aggression in the Middle East.

 

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