SPD says challenges ‘underestimated’; Chancellor hit by sharp drop in polls.
WSJE
Wall Street titans reboot
Morgan Stanley and Goldman turn to basic banking services, but they lack experience.
INYT
Women policed: from bikinis to burkinis
What impels societies to judge and regulate their choice of clothing?
FRANCE
Le Monde
Manuel Valls revives the debate on the burkini
The French Council of State judged, on 26 August, that anti-burkini decrees “seriously and illegally harm fundamental freedoms”.
Les Echos
Growth: the new global outlook
Chinese slowdown, productivity drop, and debt: the three risks for the global economy. The Fed is preparing investors to a tighter regulation. In Europe, the ECB is warning governments.
GERMANY
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Leading CDU politicians want Merkel as candidate for chancellor in 2017
Bouffier: “I consider it right that she lines up”. The party chairwoman remains tongue-tied.
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
Green doubt competences of the CDU
Party leader vehemently criticizes the demands from Union politicians to reduce taxes: Germany has “to cope with a gigantic mountain of debt”.
ITALY
La Repubblica
The government claims quake victims “will leave tents in a month.” Justice investigates the deadly renovations
Renzo Piano: “At work with the Prime Minister, a project for two generations.”
Il Sole 24 Ore
Public administration reform: six key months
6 decrees and more than 60 orders are missing.
POLAND
Gazeta Wyborcza
Speed cameras put out to grass
Poland has the fewest speed cameras in Europe, the highest speed limits and most of drivers exceed them with impunity – but other electronic traps on the road are lurking.
SPAIN
El Pais
Rajoy and Rivera sign an agreement to convince the PSOE
The agreement is made of 100 measures negotiated by Sanchez and the Cuidadanos political party.
Expansion
El Corte Inglés earns 34% more and improves its profitability
Its profit reaches 158 million with sales amounting to 15.2 billion.
UNITED KINGDOM
The Times
May threatens Hinkley deal
China faces being cut out of Britain’s nuclear future.
The Guardian
Constituency review ‘will hit Labour hard’
Tories accused of gerrymandering as opposition could lose up to 30 seats.
