EUROPEAN HEADLINES
BBC Europe – Turkey warns US over Kurdish militia group. Turkey has urged the US to stop backing the Kurdish YPG in Syria, as it steps up an offensive against the militia. A spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said YPG fighters were using US-supplied weapons against troops trying to clear the Afrin region.
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| Liberation |
Foreign investments, thank you Hollande!
€3.5 billion and 2200 jobs: to celebrate the French attractiveness which is actually already well underway since the previous five-year term, French President Macron invited on Monday 140 foreign CEOs to the Palace of Versailles.
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| Frankfurter Allgemeine |
Berlin and Paris want closer cooperation and deepening of EU
President of the National Assembly in France de Rugy warns against dangers of capitalism / President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Schäuble: Success story
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| Corriere Della Sera |
Elections, bishops’ rebuke
Italian Former Prime Minister Berlusconi in Brussels: we will respect EU rules on deficit.
Towards the polls, Cardinal Bassetti: “Impossible promises are immoral”.
Centre-left duels over electoral colleges.
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| La Vanguardia |
IMF warns Catalan crisis hampers growth
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts 2.4% growth for Spain due to political uncertainty.
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| Trud |
Religions against the Istanbul Convention
There are only two sexes, the Grand Mufti Mustafa Hadzhi declared.
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| Kristeligt Dagblad |
Denmark risks becoming part of the Spanish conflict
The fact that Denmark has opened its arms for the Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont will be perceived as a victory for the Catalan nationalists, according to experts. The Liberal Party criticises members of the Danish Parliament for a planned meeting with Mr Puigdemont today.
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| Naftemporiki |
The discussion about the debt has opened
Eurogroup decided that staff level talks begin at the Euro Working Group over the further relief of the Greek debt.
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| Publico |
Consumers saved one million with complaints to Deco
Consumers association assures that 80% of the 405,000 complaints filed in 2017 ended in favour of the clients. The telecommunications sector is the main problem. Ryanair paid €35,000 in compensations.
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| Ziaril Financier |
The reason why we don’t have motorways: EU structural funds absorption rate is of only 2.7%
Four years after the beginning of the financial framework 2014-2020, Romania received only €600 million reimbursements from the EU, out of a total allocated of €22.5 billion.
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| Dagens Nyheter |
Löfven relocates 900 governmental jobs
Swedish Prime Minister Löfven continues to outsource Governmental jobs from Stockholm. A total of 900 jobs will be relocated, most recently 30 customs officer positions to Malmö. Prime Minister Löfven stated that no part of Sweden should feel abandoned by the Government, and that it is important that all parts of Sweden feel that they are part of the future.
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