EUROPEAN HEADLINES
BBC Europe – Syria: Russia vetoes extension of chemical weapons inquiry. Russia has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution extending the mandate of the only official mission investigating the use of chemical weapons in Syria. The Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) was set up in 2015 to identify perpetrators of chemical attacks. It is due to report later this week on a deadly nerve agent attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in April.
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| Liberation |
GLYPHOSATE: YES, WE CAN DO WITHOUT IT!
Unlike what industrialists, eager to preserve their very juicy market, say, farming without pesticides is possible. EU Member States are to vote this Wednesday on the renewal of the license of glyphosate, the most sold herbicide in the world, a special danger to health. |
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| Frankfurter Allgemeine |
Schäuble: We should not fight in here
President of the Bundestag in favour of “civilised cooperation”. Defeat of the AfD. Low consent for Jamaica. |
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| Il Sole 24 Ore |
Retirement pushed back by five months
ISTAT raises life expectancy: “oldness” rising to 67 years. |
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| Dziennik Gazeta Prawna |
Who will fall overboard of the ship good change (good change – political slogan of Law and Justice)
Two years after the win of Law and Justice (PiS), first structural changes are coming. Will it be an earthquake or only several minor adjustments? |
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| El Pais |
First cracks emerge in PP-PSOE pact over 155 application
The PSOE rules out to intervene in Catalonia’s autonomy if Puigdemont calls for elections. |
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| Information |
Opposition toward Roundup has become a national cause across the EU
Today, the EU Member States will be voting on the future of the world’s best selling herbicide, Roundup from Monsanto. The herbicide has been at the centre of a year long and bitter strife on whether or not it causes cancer. Europeans and researchers have long spoken against it, and a majority in the European Parliament wants to ban the herbicide. |
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| Aripaev |
Another lash
Under Jevgeni Ossinovski’s leadership, EU labour ministers made a decision that will deliver a serious blow to those Estonian entrepreneurs who post their workers to other EU Member States on a long term basis. |
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| Tageblatt |
Glyphosate : The toxic debate
EU states decide about further extension of the weed killer. |
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| The Times of Malta |
Slain journalist ‘probing fuel smuggling links’
Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating Maltese links to a Libya-Italy diesel smuggling racket in the weeks leading to her death, the Times of Malta has been told. |
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| Delo |
Cerar’s NLB sale equation seems insoluble for now
Uncertainty about the blessing from Brussels to postpone the privatisation of the largest Slovenian bank. |
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