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BBC Europe – Catalonia: Puigdemont hails ‘defeat’ for Spanish state. Catalonia’s ousted separatist leader, Carles Puigdemont, has declared that the Spanish state has been defeated in a snap regional election. Speaking in Brussels where he is in self-imposed exile, Mr Puigdemont hailed the result as a victory for the “Catalan republic”. Separatist parties will hold a slim, reduced, majority in the new assembly.
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| Le Figaro |
Catalonian election: the pro-independence shock
Victory of pro-independence parties plunges Spain back into crisis. |
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| Handelsblatt |
The new China scepticism
After reports about layoffs in German companies with owners from China, reservations against investors from Far East grow. This is putting a strain on the planned take-over of aircraft supplier Cotesa. The case will be examined on the federal level. |
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| Corriere Della Sera |
Spain, secessionist victory
Vote shocks the country: independentists gain majority by 3 seats. Popular collapse Puigdemont: “Madrid defeated”. Ciudadanos’ unionists first party. |
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| Gazeta Wyborcza |
Judiciary staff of Ziobro
Zbigniew Ziobro, Minister of Justice, is replacing heads of courts on a mass scale. New quality is supposed to be guaranteed by, among others, acquaintance of the deputy PM who was disciplinary dismissed and a president who attempted to pass judicial examination 52 times. The deputy PM himself was also disciplinary dismissed once. |
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| El Pias |
Ciudadanos victory fails to prevent secessionist majority
Inés Arrimadas’ historic triumph is insufficient to push the pro-independence bloc aside, which reaches absolute majority with the support of the CUP despite losing seats and vote share. |
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| Die Presse |
Catalonia remains divided
Regional elections. The vote should to decide upon the independence attempts. A neck-to-neck race is likely. |
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| Le Soir |
Catalonia cut in half
The Unionist party Ciudadanos leads the pack, but the separatists have a majority at their disposal. |
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| Hospodarske Noviny |
Czech National Bank hindering Czech koruna strengthening
Czech National Bank left 0.5% standard rate unchanged. |
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| Information |
EU member states are working on maintaining as much surveillance as possible
Two EU court rulings have directed the EU member states to limit mass surveillance. However, leaked documents now reveal that the EU’s reform of the so-called logging rules are likely to be less extensive than expected. The EU member states are actually trying to ignore the limits the European Court of Justice has set, according to the criticism. |
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| Negocios |
BCP is no longer a priority in the strategy of Sonangol
New administration of the oil company and government of Angola give on trying to increase its partipation in this bank. |
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