EUROPEAN HEADLINES

FT – Hollande: France is at war with ISIS. French President seeks extra powers as manhunt intensifies.

WSJE – Raids launched in France, Belgium. Belgian police secured a Brussels neighbourhood for suspect believed to have been critical to the attacks that rocked Paris and said they were holding two people in connection with the planning, as authorities in Paris announced raids of dozens of homes in a new crackdown on radical Islamists.

INYT – France is at war, Hollande declares. In Europe, extremists able to hide in plain sight. Belgian man is sought as mastermind of attacks.

BBC – Paris attacks: France mobilises 115,000 security personnel. France has mobilised 115,000 security personnel in the wake of Friday’s Paris attacks by Islamist militants, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said.

FRANCE

Le Monde – France under state of emergency. More than 150 police raids performed Monday morning.

Les Echos – The political response. In an address to both houses of Parliament, François Hollande presented his new arsenal of security measures. Massive creation of positions in police, justice and defence. Update of the current Constitution to extend the state of emergency. Measures supporting the deprivation of nationality, expulsions and self-defence.

GERMANY

Frankfurter Allgemeine  – Hollande: France is at war. The French President will call on the UN Security Council in the fight against IS and ask Europeans for military assistance.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung – Europe hunts the mastermind of terror. France identified the Belgian citizen Abdelhamid Abaaoud as the man behind the attacks in Paris. CIA Director Brennan warns against further attacks. President Hollande calls upon the UN Security Council.

ITALY

La Repubblica – Hollande’s call to allies: Europe is at war against IS. The French President announced enhanced security measures while manhunts for jihadists continue.

Il Sole 24 Ore – Hollande: we are at war; the EU must help us. Stock Markets almost steady. French President François Hollande declared France is at war. In the G20, false unity; according to Putin, the West remains too divided.

POLAND

Gazeta Wyborcza – France prepares retaliation. In the aftermath of the attacks in Paris, France announces building a huge coalition against the Islamic State. Francois Hollande will meet with Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin to convince them to close ranks and achieve the target that should have been achieved long ago.

SPAIN

El Pais – France rearms the State to fight terrorism. Hollande extends the state of emergency and proposes a constitutional reform to give more powers to the government in the announced war against ISIS.

Expansion – Abengoa: public oxygen. State company ICO opens the tap to fund the group with long-term loans.

UK

The Times – Mastermind boasted of planning terror attacks. Brains behind Paris massacre slipped in and out of Syria. Be prepared for further atrocities, Europe told.

The Guardian – “France is at war. Terrorism will never destroy the Republic because the Republic will destroy terrorism,” François Hollande. “It is very important that we do not close our hearts and start equating the issue of refugees with terrorism,” Barack Obama. Hollande vow to build union to combat terror. Suspected mastermind of carnage named. Dozens held and arms seized in police raids.

 

 

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