EUROPEAN HEADLINES
BBC Europe – Poland President backtracks on appointing top judges. Polish President Andrzej Duda has withdrawn proposals that would have given him a say over the nomination of judges, hours after unveiling them. He announced the reversal after it became clear that there would be no majority in parliament for the move. Both the EU and domestic opponents have criticised plans for judicial reform.
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| Le Figaro |
Europe: Macron’s project upset by German election
The French President will reveal, at the Sorbonne this Tuesday, his vision to relaunch Europe. He will have to make do with the probable entry into the German coalition of the liberals, who are hostile to his ideas. |
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| Frankfurter Allgemeine |
Quarrels after the vote
Meuthen: Petry cannot stay in the AfD / Nahles should lead SPD parliamentary party / CSU in favour of parliamentary party association. |
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| La Repubblica |
Merkel, EU leadership at risk with black shadows over Germany
Split already between ultra-nationalists, the day after the vote: Frauke Petry quits party. |
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| Gazeta Wyborcza |
President’s charge
Andrzej Duda presented his proposition regarding a reform of the Supreme Court and the National Council of the Judiciary. The discussions lasted four hours. Civic Platform and Nowoczesna parties did not support it. |
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| La Vanguardia |
Catalonia’s attorney general orders school principals to prevent 1-O
The proceedings against the referendum urge Mossos d’Esquadra to alert school’s headmasters. |
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| Kapital Daily |
Difficult government for Merkel to run and little chance for big reforms in the EU
German Chancellor Merkel won the federal elections but her fourth term will be the hardest one so far. |
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| Berlingske Tidende |
German election puts Angela Merkel’s problems on display, while shocking news threaten to split AfD
Despite the German election was a setback for Angela Merkel, she continues as leader of the German government. The victor of the election, the EU and immigrant sceptic party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), was divided already from day one, when the party’s leader, Frauke Petry, left the parliamentary group. |
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| Naftemporiki |
Stress tests to take place earlier
A compromising move by the European side before the IMF’s pressures. |
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| NYT |
The West’s reluctant leader
Re-elected as chancellor, Merkel turns to tasks in Germany and in Europe. |
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| Svenska Dagbladet |
Merkel forced to unparalleled juggling act in order to create new government
Therese Larson Hultin writes in an editorial in Svenska Dagbladet that German Chancellor Merkel’s new government will be difficult to put together, as liberals and greens pull in different directions. |
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