EUROPEAN HEADLINES
BBC Europe – London Stock Exchange/Deutsche Boerse merger in doubt. The 29bn euro (£24.5bn) merger of the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Boerse could collapse after the LSE said the deal was unlikely to be approved by the European Commission. The commission had ordered the LSE to sell its 60% stake in MTS, a fixed-income trading platform. However, the LSE said the request was “disproportionate”. It warned investors it would struggle to sell MTS and that such a sale would harm its ongoing business.
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Deflation stymies Japan
The world’s most radical experiment in monetary policy isn’t working. |
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| INYT |
Wary eye as China moves in next door
Naval base in Djibouti is only a few miles from vital American installation. |
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| Le Monde |
FN financing: a system of organised opacity
While Marine Le Pen refuses to answer summonses as she denounces political bias on the part of the justice system, suspicions surrounding her party are increasing. |
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| Les Echos |
Beijing to sharpen its weapons to stand up to Trump
Xi Jinping appoints trustworthy men to the key posts of economic affairs. The Chinese president now concentrates most of the powers at the head of the state. |
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| Frankfurter Allgemeine |
Union calls for more deportations of rejected asylum seekers
Greens: reassess the situation in Afghanistan. Caffier: deportation stop is treason. |
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| Süddeutsche Zeitung |
CSU: Schulz’s success is not a straw fire
Strong SPD polling making the union nervous. Bavaria’s Finance Minister Söder exhorts Angela Merkel to oppose the Social Democrats more and defend former achievements less. |
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| La Repubblica |
To Switzerland for assisted suicide, “betrayed by Italy, this is an outrage”
DJ Fabo to doctors: “I want to die”. Appeal to Matarella: “I’m living in a cage”. |
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| Il Sole 24 Ore |
“For an EU which helps its industry”
Five ministers have called for a greater involvement of Brussels in the defense of European production. |
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| Gazeta Wyborcza |
Big school strike in March
Polish Teachers’ Union has collected over 120,000 signatures in support of organizing a referendum about the educational reform in Poland. Teachers also prepare to stage a big strike in the second half of March to show lack of acceptance for the planned changes. |
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| El Pais |
The European Union turns its back on Generalitat’s separatist regime
After spending a year as Foreign Affairs Minister, Romeva has only been seen with one Cambodian minister. |
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| Expansion |
Interview with José Maria Aznar: “The worst thing would for illegality to become normal in Catalonia”.
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| FT |
US banks’ 120,000 low-cost staff in Asia at odds with Trump’s pledges
Lenders seek to fight new regulations. Offshore compliance roles up 18% in two years. |
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| The Times |
Scots to demand new referendum, No 10 fears
May is warned that start of Brexit will trigger “devolution crisis”. |
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| The Guardian |
NHS accused of covering up huge data loss
Many patients put at risk by failure to deliver 500,000 documents. |
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