EUROPEAN HEADLINES
BBC Europe – France election: Hamon and Valls in run-off for Socialist candidacy. Left-wing ex-Education Minister Benoit Hamon and ex-PM Manuel Valls will contest a run-off to become the Socialist candidate in France’s presidential election in April. It was clear the pair would advance from a field of seven after half the votes were counted in Sunday’s primary.
| FT Europe |
Trump sets tone for presidency with attack on ‘dishonest’ media.
First news briefing stuns nation. Priebus says press want to ‘delegitimise’ president. |
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| WSJE |
Trump’s focus: crowds, coverage.
New president’s first weekend is dominated by talk of protests, attacks on the media. |
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| INYT |
Colonial-era wound in Namibia.
Objections to a statue of a marine splits a city that retains German ties. |
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| Le Monde |
“America First”.
Donald Trump, who officially became the 45th President of the United States on Friday 20 January in Washington, exalted American patriotism. |
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| Les Echos |
Trump attacking Obama’s legacy already.
Obamacare, environment and free trade are targeted. Softening rules for Wall Street. In Davos, controversial impact of “Trumponomics”. |
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| Frankfurter Allgemeiene |
President Trump continues to set on confrontation.
Critics against the media. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators. Merkel calls for prudence. |
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| Sueddeutsche Zeitung |
Set everything on attack.
Donald Trump begins his term with harsh media scolding and praise for the CIA, which he had previously criticised sharply. More than a million Americans protest against the new president. |
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| La Repubblica |
Alert on the risk of aftershocks, dykes threatened.
Gentiloni: extraordinary powers to those facing emergency. |
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| Il Sole 24 Ore |
IVA, IRI, balance: the Treasury’s problems.
The modifications introduced by the autumn decree and the budgetary law leave important gaps. |
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| Gazeta Wyborcza |
Troika will divide Syria.
In Kazakhstan’s capital city today, peace talks are starting under the aegis of Russia, Turkey and Iran. However, the final of the war in Syria still remains far away. The rebels are cutting off Damascus from water supplies, and Islamists are destroying the ancient Palmyra again. |
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| El Pais |
Errejón prevents Iglesias from uniting Podemos with the IU.
The proposition of the party’s ‘number two’ relies on the support of the Organisation’s Secretary General. |
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| Expansion |
Saracho to decide if Banco Popular increases capital.
The bank already launched three capital increases since the beginning of the crisis, for €5.45 billion. |
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| The Times |
Punitive business rates threaten rural way of life.
Countryside will be hardest hit by “unfair” property tax, critics warn. |
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| The Guardian |
May accused of covering up Trident failure.
MPs call for full disclosure of incident that took place before critical vote.
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