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27/06 – Today’s headlines from across the EU

EUROPEAN HEADLINES

BBC Europe –  Al-Qaeda: Kidnapped Swede Johan Gustafsson freed after six years. Hostage Johan Gustafsson, held by al-Qaeda in Mali since 2011, has been freed, the Swedish government says. Mr Gustafsson, 42, is being flown back to Sweden from Africa, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Margot Wallström said in a statement on Monday. He was seized by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) along with two other men, one of whom was freed in a dawn raid in 2015.

FRANCE

Le Monde

Environment : Hulot’s “blueprint for society“

In the roadmap he forwarded to Matignon, the minister proposes to the government a “blueprint for society” built around ecology.

GERMANY

Frankfurter Allgemeine

Trump’s travel bans partially enacted

Supreme Court revokes former injunctions / oral negotiations in October.

ITALY

Il Sole 24 Ore

Stock markets promote Intesa-Venetians

Draghi: bail-in does not cover all scenarios – Gentiloni: legitimate operation, no gift. The government aims to recover €9.9 billion – Bank Italia: zero costs for the State.

POLAND

Dziennik Gazeta Prawna

May will not throw anyone out

All EU citizens who remain in the UK after Brexit will have to regulate the terms of their stay, and those who now arrive in Britian will not have their stay guaranteed.

SPAIN

El Pais

London includes Gibraltar in its Brexit proposal

Spain protests and reminds that EU27 Member States support a separate discussion for the Rock’s issue.

BELGIUM

De Standaard

Populism will remain in the EU

EU leaders will not beat populist parties just with economic growth. Identity and migration are more important to their voters.

GREECE

Naftemporiki

Ice by Draghi for the QE

The Eurogroup’s decision does not lift the reservations for the debt, according to the ECB President.

LUXEMBOURG

Tageblatt

Hunting for EU fraudsters

At the end of 2018 or in the beginning of 2019, a new European institution will settle down on Kirchberg in Luxembourg. Tageblatt talks to Luxembourg’s Minister of Justice, Felix Braz, who has been intensively advocating to house the EU public prosecutor’s office in Luxembourg. The minister explains the tasks and the role of the new EU institution, which, in the beginning will have 115 employees.

PORTUGAL

Negocios

Brussels approves Novo Banco in July

European Commission analysis thoroughly Lone Star business plan.

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