BBC Europe – Le Pen steps aside as National Front Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has announced that she is stepping aside as leader of her National Front (FN) party. The move comes just a day after she reached the second round of the French election, where she will face centrist Emmanuel Macron.
FRANCE
Macron-Le Pen: the keys to an unprecedented combat
Le Pen attacks Macron from the start. Crisis in the Socialist Party and in Les Républicains. Financial markets are responding positively.
GERMANY
Macron to go into second ballot with wide support against Le Pen
Front National Chairwoman: “union old and rotten” / Dax hits record high
ITALY
Plan rejected, Alitalia chaos
Towards external administration after referendum. Government says: we’re perplexed. A majority of Alitalia workers voted against a referendum to find an accord over the airline’s future. This will lead the way to Alitalia being placed under external administration. Three Ministers involved in the plan to rescue the airline expressed “regret” over the new decision.
POLAND
Development minister will improve the law. Finance minister will squeeze taxes
“In the legislation, we will switch from the quantity into the quality,” promises Deputy Prime Minister Morawiecki. Entrepreneurs will have a bigger influence on regulations and fewer obligations. The Finance Ministry persuades Brussels that the policy of taxes’ sealing works. The tax gap is shrinking in the VAT area, for example. In 2017-2018, the budget is to gain an extra revenue of PLN22 billion, thanks to the standardised control file (JPK), bank account analysis, and split payment.
SPAIN
El Pais
PP’s wave of corruption reaches former Madrid leader Esperanza Aguirre
Judge Eloy Velasco points out former minister Eduardo Zaplana due to his ties with Ignacio González. Several PP authorities and businessman Juan Miguel Villar Mir amongst the 60 people subject to the investigation
BELGIUM
Monsanto manipulated research around Roundup
Monsanto wrote scientific research on its own and looked for “credible” scientists who agreed to put their name on said studies. All of this in order to prevent a glyphosate ban.
LITHUANIA
Chaos at urban public transport
A ban on local authorities to buy public services from public transport companies would prevent them from competing with private companies. Given such a scenario, Lithuanian urban public transport would be chaotic, and in some cities and districts, bus stations would disappear.
PORTUGAL
25th of April
We do not know what to do out of the memory of Estado Novo. Aljube possesses thousand of resistance items. How the coup revolutionised street names.
SWEDEN
The proposal which could save the crane
Former stevedore Lars-Göran Karlsson has received a proposal regarding responsibilities of the old crane located near Hamnbron. The crane is considered to be important to the overall feeling of the inner port.
U S A
WSJE
French vote results spur markets
Euro stocks rally after first round of election eases fears about the future of the Eurozone
