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28/09 – Today’s headlines from across the EU

EUROPEAN HEADLINES

FT Europe

Iran rejects output cap and wrecks Saudi bid to reverse oil price slide.

Brent falls 3.5%. Tehran seeks larger market share. Grim outlook for Riyadh finances.

WSJE

Trump debate pitch faulted.

Republican strategists say GOP candidate failed to solidify support of suburban women.

INYT

Inside the migrant “Jungle” in France.

The migrants from Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea and elsewhere keep coming. Almost 100 a day arrive at this dusty, ramshackle camp perched at the edge of the English Channel, just 31 miles from Britain, their ultimate goal.

FRANCE

Le Monde

United States: Clinton victorious.

In the first of three televised debates with Donald Trump, the Democratic Party candidate was able to use her experience as a woman involved in politics for several decades.

Les Echos

Withholding tax: this is what awaits the French.

Presented on Wednesday, the 2017 budget provides for the implementation of income tax deductions at source. The executive is embarrassed by the High Council of Public Finances’ opinion on the deficit target.

GERMANY

Frankfurter Allgemeine

Horror after bomb attacks on mosque and Convention Center.

Dresden tightens security measures ahead of German Unity Day celebrations.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung

Attack on mosque in Dresden.

Two bombs detonate in the capital of Saxony shortly before German unity day. The police suspect a xenophobic motive and is now protecting Islamic institutions.

ITALY

La Repubblica

Budget, deficit at 2.4%, tussle with Brussels.

Renzi has asked for €6.5 billion for the earthquake and migrants, and has again mentioned the bridge across the Straits of Messina.

Il Sole 24 Ore

2017 budget: 2% deficit, and 0.4% more out of the pact.

€9 or €10 billion in flexibility but the EU slows down: no agreement. Renzi: “Time to go forward on investment” and relaunches the Messina Bridge.

POLAND

Gazeta Wyborcza

Ideological ecology.

Under the Law and Justice rule, the National Fund for the Environment Protection and Water Management fulfills the government’s objectives that have little to do with the statutory tasks of the Fund. It organises debates and lectures dedicated to, among others, historic aspects of Polish soldiers defending the homeland, GMO, Poland in the European Union, Polish-Jewish relations or threats entailed by Islam.

SPAIN

El Pais

PSOE protests against Sánchez’s attempt to maintain his position.

PSOE’s leaders, critical of Pedro Sánchez, have deployed an offensive within all the federations in order to prevent the federal committee gathered next Saturday by the general secretary to vote on a Congress that will cancel the party’s leadership.

Expansion

Acciona and Gestamp reach Mexico’s renewable energy market.

The two companies won a tender in the electric sector along with other Spanish groups such as Fotowatio and Grenergy.

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UNITED KINGDOM

The Times

Humiliation for English football as Allardyce steps down.

Manager lasts one game before undercover sting.

The Guardian

Corbyn rules out cutting immigration.

Labour leader to resist party pressure to reduce numbers after Brexit vote.

 

 

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