EUROPEAN HEADLINES
FT Europe – Europe’s truck makers braced for biggest Brussels cartel penalty. Major names in price fixing and emissions probe. Provisions made total $2.6 billion.
WSJE – No publication today.
INYT – Venezuela ; When suffering becomes the new norm. Food shortages, blackouts and water rationing begin to take a toll in Venezuela.
BBC Europe – Migrants could die crossing Channel, ex-immigration chief warns. More resources are needed to stop migrants trying to reach UK on makeshift boats, or lives will be lost, an ex-border force inspector has said. A group of 20 people – including 18 Albanian migrants and two children – were rescued from an inflatable boat off the coast of Kent on Sunday.
FRANCE
Le Monde – Labour law: risks of a lasting conflict. Struggle with CGT continues, while the parliamentary debate will not come to an end before the beginning of July.
Les Echos – Protests, violence: a hard blow for France’s image. European media criticise France and its deteriorating social climate. The political power is considered weakened and unable to resist unions.
GERMANY
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – Merkel and Hollande praise European unity in Verdun. Chancellor warns of foreclosure. Commemoration of the battle a hundred years ago.
Suedeutsche Zeitung – We can’t get away from Verdun.” 100 years after the battle, Chancellor Merkel and President Hollande recall its cruelty and senselessness, and dignify reconciliation between Germans and French.
ITALY
La Repubblica – Migration: Emergency landings: boats are missing, a slaughter among children. UN: “700 people dead, including 40 children, from the last three shipwrecks”. Witnesses: “smugglers abandoned them at sea.”
Il Sole 24 Ore – Elections: the charge of the 77,000. Record of formations in Naples (41) and of candidates in Torino (17).
POLAND
Gazeta Wyborcza – Berlin is gentle on Warsaw. President Andrzej Duda’s meeting with Mr Gauck and Ms Merkel, consultations between the Polish and German Governments over Polish-German cooperation – Berlin tries to mollify Warsaw.
SPAIN
El País – Battle of Verdun centenary: “The forces of division of Europe are back.” Hollande and Merkel warn against the return of the nationalism that triggered two world wars.
Expansion – Banco Popular: Demands for capital increase of €4 billion. The bank reportedly succeeded in covering its offer to collect €2.5 billion.
UK
The Times – I dare you to depose me, Cameron tells rebels. The prime minister will dare backbenchers to carry out a threat to depose him in the wake of the EU referendum.
The Guardian – Tories’ Brexit rift widens as rebels call for Cameron exit. Backbenchers lash out at PM as leave campaign steps up attacks.
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