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30/09 – Today’s headlines from across the EU

  European Headlines

 

FT

Equities eye worst quarter since 2011 over fears for global economy. China slowdown concern. Fed adds to uncertainty. Questions on US earnings outlook.

 

WSJE

VW plans massive recall. Auto maker outlines solution for vehicles affected by tainted engine-control code.

INYT

Refugee crisis buoys Austria’s far right. Anti-immigrant messagefinds audience in Vienna, a stronghold of the left.

 

  France

 

Le Monde

Syria: the fate of Assad blocks cooperation between the US and Russia. Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama showed their differences on Syria at the UN General Assembly on Monday 28 September.

Les Echos

Sarkozy: Our social model needs to be overhauled. 35 hours, taxes, pensions, civil servants: the former president’s project. “We can either lose ground or be reborn,” he said in an interview with Les Echos.

 

   Germany

 

Frankfurter Allgemeine

Up to 10,000 migrants a day. According to Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, between 8,000 and 10,000 refugees arrive in Germany every day.

 

Suedeutsche Zeitung

Heavy suspicion against VW top executive. According to an internal investigation of the group, the head of the engine development department had already been warned in 2011 about questionable practices as regards exhaust gas measurements.

 

  Italy

 

La Repubblica 

IS is surrounded; Obama launches anti Jihadist pact. The US President says that the US was ready to work with Russia and Iran, while the UN sounded the alarm on foreign fighters, whose numbers have increased by 70%. Meanwhile in Afghanistan, the city of Kunduz has fallen to the Taliban.

 

Il Sole 24 Ore

Voluntary disclosure postponed until the end of the year. No more safeguard clause for €1.4 billion, decided the council of ministers. Taxes on petrol have been averted.

 

  Poland

 

Gazeta Wyborcza

Priest Oko under surveillance. Priest Krzysztof Charamsa from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith says that actions taken by priest Dariusz Oko are a vivid example of hate speech resulting from gross incompetence. Priest Charamsa says that lack of reaction from the Polish Church is scandalous.

 

 

  Spain

 

El Pais

Mas’ accusation helps the sovereignists’ unity. The Generalitat states that the court’s decision is a political trial. All the Catalan parties – except the PP and Ciutadans – criticise the decision and its consequences.

 

Expansion

The Spanish government plans to sue Volkswagen. The government will ask the group to give the PIVE Plan incentives.

 

  UK

 

The Times

Corbyn makes his pitch for ‘modern left’ Britain. Row over recycled text overshadows debut conference speech.

 

The Guardian 

Corbyn: let’s stir up Britain. Don’t accept what you are given, says leader. Call for a kinder politics and a caring society. Clear message that he opposes replacing Trident.

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